Of this 13%, 8% (or 60% of treatment effects) is due to Alliance Factors, 4% (or 30% of treatment effects) is due to Allegiance to Treatment factors, and 1% (or 8% of treatment effects) is due to the technique or model used.
Too often, such information is nearly impossible to get, especially when it requires doctors to give patients useful statistics about things like treatment side effects.
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For example, some people find that the side effects of treatment are more burdensome than the effects of the disease itself.
Survivors face many long-term effects of treatment, from secondary cancers to cardiovascular problems to cognitive defects.
Your doctor will try to achieve a balance between controlling your symptoms while minimizing toxic effects from treatment.
Then there is the pain and potential negative side effects of treatment after a problem is detected and confirmed by subsequent testing.
While ADHD medications can help children who have it, the treatment can have side effects and may affect sleep, appetite, and growth, the researchers note.
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Nor can we say with certainty what impact a medical condition will have on someone's life or how they might experience a treatment's side effects.
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Put simply, Nuvilex is developing the technology to revolutionize oncology treatment whilst minimizing side effects, which should (key word) result in a large, fairly consistent revenue stream.
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With its large population, Carolinas generates large quantities of data that lets its analysts look at populations with asthma or diabetes and monitor the effects of treatment programs.
In particular, it is crucial to find out whether this is associated with the timing of the treatment or possible side effects of it rather than the stem cell transplant itself.
Colleen Doyle, registered dietitian and editor of the cookbook, says the book is full of recipes and eating strategies that patients with all types of cancer can adopt to help deal with the unpleasant side effects of treatment.
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Wyeth is also developing another medicine to treat menopause symptoms and a new drug for osteoporosis, a treatment for the side effects of morphine, and an improved version of its Prevnar vaccine, which prevents certain bacterial infections in infants and toddlers.
He successfully returned to the game after treatment, but in May 2003 he was put on dialysis three times a week due to deterioration in his kidney function, with the treatment's side effects leaving him with severe nerve damage in his feet and legs.
The researchers speculated that any positive effects of homeopathic treatment might stem from the rapport that often develops between practitioner and patient.
One is meta-analysis, in which the results of clinical trials are pooled together to try and tease out small effects of a treatment.
Taylor got ill and the treatment produced multiple costly side effects.
Those groups argue that the treatment and the potential side effects -- such as memory loss and brain damage -- are serious enough to merit a thorough review.
One man who lives in Clapham, south London, and is HIV positive said he relied on the postal service to deliver supplementary medicine that helps fight the side effects of his treatment.
The study, though it covered only 223 patients, pointed up a painful choice: Because doctors have no way of telling which cases are benign, they err on the side of treatment, despite the side effects.
Analysts highlighted the likely positive effects of swine flu treatment orders in the third quarter as well.
The WSJ piece is only incidentally about the possible side-effects of a specific treatment for a particular ailment.
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How about fasting before chemotherapy treatment in order to reduce side effects?
He said doctors could already assess whether a patient was likely to experience side-effects from a particular treatment based on their genetic profile.
Prostate cancer treatment is associated with serious side effects.
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