Definitions
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- adjective biochemistry Describing
resistance of acell to the actions of achemical compound - adjective medicine Describing the resistance of a
tumour tochemotherapy
Etymologies
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Examples
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Weiss said of the approximately 32,000 new cases of small cell lung cancer diagnosed every year, between 15 and 30 percent will be chemoresistant to first-line therapy.
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2010
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Weiss said of the approximately 32,000 new cases of small cell lung cancer diagnosed every year, between 15 and 30 percent will be chemoresistant to first-line therapy.
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Blocking endothelial trophic support of chemoresistant genitourinary tumors
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* As monotherapy for treatment of patients with stage III-IV follicular lymphoma who are chemoresistant or are in their second or subsequent relapse after chemotherapy
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* As monotherapy for treatment of patients with stage III-IV follicular lymphoma who are chemoresistant or are in their second or subsequent relapse after chemotherapy
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As a predictive biomarker in the development of new treatments for those SCLC tumors that prove to be de novo chemoresistant - possessing properties that render them inherently resistant to existing drug therapies.
Science Blog 2010
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Phase II results show that NKTR-102 is very active even in these highly chemoresistant patients.
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First, when we look at the patients in the most chemoresistant category, those that progress during platinum therapy.
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And when looks at data in ovarian cancer, it would be easy to make the mistake of lumping all of the results of drugs treating different degrees of chemoresistant ovarian cancer into one pool and then try to compare them.
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* As monotherapy for treatment of patients with stage III-IV follicular lymphoma who are chemoresistant or are in their second or subsequent relapse after chemotherapy
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