Example sentences of "[verb] to treatment " in BNC.

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1 Apparent recovery took place , though it was only temporary : it was followed by a fresh proliferation of leukaemic cells which no longer responded to treatment .
2 Garry Flitcroft , one of their emerging young players , is expected to recover from a sore back while Mike Sheron ( knee ) and Terry Phelan ( ankle ) have both responded to treatment .
3 Detained under a section of the Mental Health Act in the first place , these patients had responded to treatment in hospital , and their leave was subject to a requirement that treatment should be continued outside hospital .
4 The other guys responded to treatment .
5 The symptoms responded to treatment with pyridostigmine , but the side effects of pain and diarrhoea complicated her management .
6 He damaged a shoulder in a club match on Saturday week , and the injury has not responded to treatment .
7 Ultimately the individual receiving the service is the one whose wishes must be respected but , where that person depends on a relative for day-to-day care , it is only reasonable that the relative should be as fully involved as possible in decisions and become a full participating partner in the professional team , contributing to treatment and care plans .
8 One such occasion will be when the adult is brought to hospital unconscious after an accident , and has had no opportunity to signify whether she consents to treatment or not .
9 To analyse whether the response rate was related to treatment modification or selection of patients , the actual response was compared with a predicted response that was obtained with a response model developed by Brook et al .
10 Setting limits to treatment
11 Organisational arrangements , educational systems and approaches to treatment and care are all in a continuing state of change and development .
12 For many technology-conscious officials in developing countries , getting rid of sewage means installing underground pipes leading to treatment plants on the western pattern .
13 Lithotripsy , which blasts kidney stones to gravel , shortens in-patient stays by 75 per cent compared to treatment by surgery and allows the patient to resume normal activities in 24 hours .
14 This organism responds to treatment with bismuth salts — eg potassium dicitrato bismuthate ; DeNol .
15 I 'll just have to see how it responds to treatment . ’
16 We 'll have to see how she responds to treatment , but it may take quite a long time . ’
17 The Medical Defence Union , in its pamphlet entitled ‘ consent to Treatment ’ , advises that ‘ a patient who is compulsorily detained under the Mental Health Act must submit to treatment for his mental disorder whether or not he agrees ’ , but that ‘ if a compulsorily detained patient develops a condition unrelated to his mental disorder , then only such treatment as is immediately necessary to preserve his life and health may be given without his consent . ’
18 During the course of the hearing before us , however , it became clear , as Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has explained , that unless W. submitted to treatment of the kind which she had hitherto refused she would begin to suffer irreversible harm within a week .
19 Since children were randomised to treatment group by cluster in the Survival Study , the results , both of the baseline comparisons and the mortality rates , were analysed by a comparison of the mean of the results in each of the 92 vitamin A clusters against the mean of the results in each of the 93 placebo clusters .
20 After this , subjects were allocated to treatment with each insulin species ( pyr human insulin ( human Actrapid and Protaphane , Novo Nordisk , Copenhagen , Denmark ) or porcine insulin ( Actrapid and Insulatard , Novo Nordisk ) , for two months in random order .
21 Although this organism does respond to treatment with certain antibiotics , it is , surprisingly , more sensitive to metronidazole , the anti-protozoal agent used to treat trichomonas .
22 Local fish always carry parasites — not just the external ones which may respond to treatment , but internal ones such as tapeworms .
23 The tests would enable identification ( with varying certainty ) of patients who might respond to treatment and increase their survival .
24 He contracted a lung infection which did not respond to treatment .
25 Practical conservation is highly scientific , requiring an intimate knowledge and understanding of ancient materials and how they will respond to treatment .
26 One male patient with chronic antral ulcer did not respond to treatment within the next six months ( H pylori and ulcer persistence ) , and in one female patient a resistent body ulcer was identified as gastric lymphoma .
27 There continues to be some doubt as to whether anyone has authority to consent to treatment in the case of an adult , in the absence of statute .
28 The court or parents for their part can refuse to consent to treatment A or B or both , but can not insist on treatment C. The inevitable and desirable result is that choice of treatment is in some measure a joint decision of the doctors and the court or parents . ’
29 The court or parents for their part can refuse to consent to treatment A or B or both , but can not insist upon treatment C. The inevitable and desirable result is that choice of treatment is in some measure a joint decision of the doctors and the court or parents .
30 In Gillick v. West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority [ 1986 ] A.C. 112 the central issue was not whether a child patient under the age of 16 could refuse medical treatment if the parents or the court consented , but whether the parents could effectively impose a veto on treatment by failing or refusing to consent to treatment to which the child might consent .
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