Example sentences of "response 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 | In a real disease state rather than an artificial provocation , it is necessary to examine very carefully the animal 's disease behaviour and then its response to treatment . |
| 3 | ‘ The longstanding nature of the difficulties and the poor response to treatment of those difficulties reduces the likelihood that any treatment programme would be successful . |
| 4 | Multivariate analysis has shown that only a mild histological picture ( chronic persistent hepatitis ) is an independent pretreatment variable that predicts response to treatment . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Thymocytes from the knockout mice show a normal apoptotic response to treatment with glucocorticoids but are extraordinarily resistant to the induction of the process by radiation , both in vitro and in vivo . |
| 7 | Abrogation of this p53 pathway is the most common specific alteration in human cancer , and may be central to the progression of the disease and to its response to treatment by radiation and chemotherapeutic drugs . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The criteria for response to treatment were : HBeAg seroconversion and serum HBV-DNA negativity . |
| 10 | The criteria for partial response to treatment were : a decrease in serum HBeAg of 50% or more of the initial level or serum HBV-DNA negativity with sustained HBeAg positivity after 24 weeks of follow up . |
| 11 | 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% ) . |
| 12 | In summary , the two types low grade/mixed grade and high grade recognised in the Isaacson classification delineate two extreme types of gastric MALT lymphomas that differ in their presentation , clinical behaviour , and response to treatment . |
| 13 | Low grade/mixed grade occur in elderly men with a history extending over several years , non-specific local symptoms , no abnormal exploratory or laboratory findings , a gastric infiltrative/ulcerative pattern , limited stage I-II disease , and with a very good response to treatment and prolonged survival . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Compared with the wealth of information already available in the assessment of untreated tumours , relatively little attention has yet been given to the role of MRI in monitoring tumour behaviour in response to treatment and detecting relapse . |
| 16 | For example , soft tissue sarcomas and lymphomatous masses show a reduction in signal on T2 weighted images in response to treatment , and bone tumours may show a mixed response with persistent areas of low signal remaining and areas of high signal developing within the bone marrow . |
| 17 | Chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction ( CIP ) is a heterogeneous group of disorders that vary in cause , severity , course , and response to treatment . |
| 18 | She showed some response to treatment with supportive measure — namely , oral 20 mg prednisolone daily in a reducing dose and ampicillin . |
| 19 | This results , however , most probably reflects local response to treatment with the eradication of aneuploid tumour cells in a proportion of carcinomas . |
| 20 | Although difficult , an early diagnosis of primary oesophageal lymphoma seems to be vital as the response to treatment is often good . |
| 21 | These findings reaffirm the maxim that patients with adult onset ‘ coeliac ’ disease who show a poor response to treatment or who deteriorate when receiving treatment should be viewed with a high degree of suspicion . |
| 22 | Subsequently , endosonography and computed tomographic examinations were performed every two or three months to assess the response to treatment or relapse . |
| 23 | The response to treatment was assessed by Wilcoxon signed rank test . |
| 24 | A good response to treatment was defined as restoration of continence or a decrease of at least 75% in frequency of incontinence . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Measurement of bone density is helpful in assessing the risk of oesteoporosis in patients and in monitoring response to treatment . |
| 28 | In clinical practice , presumptive diagnosis of toxoplasmic encephalitis implies specific therapy , and the firm diagnosis is usually made on the basis of the clinical and radiographic response to treatment . |
| 29 | With the exception of patients withdrawn due to deterioration , there were no apparent differences in response to treatment . |
| 30 | These researchers recruited 154 adults and children into a placebo-controlled crossover trial and found no response to treatment . |