 Salvage Therapy
"Salvage Therapy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A therapeutic approach, involving chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgery, after initial regimens have failed to lead to improvement in a patient's condition. Salvage therapy is most often used for neoplastic diseases.
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D016879
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.895
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| Concept/Terms |
Salvage Therapy- Salvage Therapy
- Salvage Treatment
- Salvage Treatments
- Treatment, Salvage
- Treatments, Salvage
- Therapy, Salvage
- Salvage Therapies
- Therapies, Salvage
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| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Salvage Therapy" by people in Profiles.
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Macdonald RL, Jaja B, Cusimano MD, Etminan N, Hanggi D, Hasan D, Ilodigwe D, Lantigua H, Le Roux P, Lo B, Louffat-Olivares A, Mayer S, Molyneux A, Quinn A, Schweizer TA, Schenk T, Spears J, Todd M, Torner J, Vergouwen MD, Wong GK, Singh J. SAHIT Investigators--on the outcome of some subarachnoid hemorrhage clinical trials. Transl Stroke Res. 2013 Jun; 4(3):286-96.
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D'Amico AV, Kantoff P, Loffredo M, Renshaw AA, Loffredo B, Chen MH. Predictors of mortality after prostate-specific antigen failure. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2006 Jul 01; 65(3):656-60.
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D'Amico AV, Moul JW, Carroll PR, Cote K, Sun L, Lubeck D, Renshaw AA, Loffredo M, Chen MH. Intermediate end point for prostate cancer-specific mortality following salvage hormonal therapy for prostate-specific antigen failure. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2004 Apr 07; 96(7):509-15.
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