Example sentences of "[art] [noun] to treatment " in BNC.

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1 Many erroneous assumptions are made both about the nature of cancer in older people and the response to treatment .
2 Careful studies showed no difference in the prevalence of the diagnostic categories or the response to treatment of amenorrhoea ‘ post-pill ’ as compared with its occurrence ‘ post-condom . ’
3 Moreover , all of these studies either involved very small numbers or had other serious methodological flaws such as lack of objective criteria over initial recruitment or the response to treatment , or both , and lack of a control group .
4 As with primary bone tumours , MRI should be regarded as the investigation of choice before surgery for soft tissue sarcoma and is also helpful for monitoring the response to treatment and detecting any recurrence .
5 Although difficult , an early diagnosis of primary oesophageal lymphoma seems to be vital as the response to treatment is often good .
6 Subsequently , endosonography and computed tomographic examinations were performed every two or three months to assess the response to treatment or relapse .
7 The response to treatment was assessed by Wilcoxon signed rank test .
8 Some predominantly immune-driven diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis , and vasculitides such as Behet 's or Wegener 's granulomatosis also show high serum CRP values , and as with Crohn 's disease these may be used to monitor the response to treatment .
9 The CRP value is a surrogate for direct assessment of cytokine generation , and is valuable in confirming the presence of inflammation , assessing its severity , and monitoring the response to treatment and the development of complications .
10 The response to treatment is usually rapid and if diarrhoea persists coccidiosis should be considered as a complicating factor .
11 The other is the right to treatment as an equal , or , as Dworkin puts it ‘ the right to equal concern and respect in the political decision about how these goods and opportunities are to be distributed ’ ( Dworkin , 1978 , p. 273 ) .
12 Although there were no significant differences in the global left ventricular ejection fractions whether patients were treated early or in the third hour , when the global left ventricular ejection fraction measured in these patients was plotted against time and a regression analysis performed , the delay in treatment was significantly related to the global ejection fraction , i.e. the longer the delay to treatment the lower the global ejection fraction .
13 For this reason , the approach to treatment must , above all else , be a clear one ; that is , one which helps the patient separate out each of his problems and plan ways of dealing with them .
14 Available evidence suggests that the efficacy of coronary thrombolysis could be augmented by shortening the time to treatment , by improving of the potency and specificity of fibrin-dissolving agents , by improving co-therapy with anticoagulant and antiplatelet agents , or by a combination of all of these .
15 When the adherence to treatment is considered , the data analysis results are very similar to those seen in the intention to treat analysis ( 10.2% and 26% of recurrences in heater probe and in control group respectively ; Fisher 's exact test p=0.04 ) .
16 This survey shows that many patients received no follow up and no change to treatment despite experiencing an asthma attack .
17 These researchers recruited 154 adults and children into a placebo-controlled crossover trial and found no response to treatment .
18 A response to treatment ( HBeAg seroconversion and serum HBV-DNA negativity ) was observed in 22 of the 40 patients ( 55% ; 95% confidence interval ( CI ) 40–70% ) .
19 Neither an acute complication of gall stone disease nor a non-functioning gall bladder , if caused by a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch , was regarded as a contraindication to treatment .
20 Unlike other non-operative treatments , a non-functioning gall bladder with a stone impacted in Hartmann 's pouch is not a contraindication to treatment and stones were removed successfully in 15 of 16 patients with a return of cystic duct patency .
21 There is very considerable force in the submission that once a refusal to treatment is expressed and held to be valid and binding on the hospital , as I have found , then that consent or that refusal should continue to prevail and dictate the outcome of this case .
22 Since everyone has a right to treatment whether they have been contributors or not , it is difficult to justify .
23 There was no freedom , no consent to treatment , no second opinion , no review , no lawyer , no notice of rights , no definite time limit to the detention — and no cure .
24 No minor of whatever age has power by refusing consent to treatment to override a consent to treatment by someone who has parental responsibility for the minor and a fortiori a consent by the court .
25 This case points to a possible role for moderate hypothermia in preventing hepatitis secondary to ingestion of paracetamol , when it might be used as an adjunct to treatment with acetylcysteine or haemoperfusion in high risk cases .
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