experimental therapy
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experimental
adjective
uk/ɪkˌsper.ɪˈmen.təl/us/ɪkˌsper.əˈmen.t̬əl/
using new methods, ideas, substances, etc. that have not been tried before, usually in order to find out what effect ...
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therapy
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈθer.ə.pi/us/ˈθer.ə.pi/
a treatment that helps someone feel better, grow stronger, etc., especially after ...
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In this analysis, variation in costs by center was greater within the newerexperimentaltherapy.
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Nephrologists, together with patients receiving dialysis, formed a pressure group to persuade the government and the social insurance agency that dialysis was no longer anexperimentaltherapy.
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The above results identified that significant variation between centers occurred only in the newerexperimentaltherapyand specifically in relation to radiotherapy and hospital costs.
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Within a multicenter evaluation, it may be important to select centers with varying experience with theexperimentaltherapyto ensure generalizability to as wide a patient population as possible.
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The laboratory conducted research in the field of comparative anatomy, general and nervous system, physiology, pathological anatomy, experimental pathology andexperimentaltherapyof the nervous system.
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For the next two years doctors attempted speech and physical therapy and otherexperimentaltherapy, hoping to return her to a state of awareness.
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It should, however, be taken into consideration when discussing experimental therapies.
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Studies of renal development have already led to novel experimental therapies.
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Experimental therapies are increasingly perceived not as a highly problematic approach but as a near-standard way to deal with incurable cancer.
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The debates on the desirability of "experimental therapies" versus the "palliation" orientation for patients suffering from advanced, incurable cancer focus on an important and difficult question.
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Improvements in the results of matched unrelated donor transplants and newer experimental therapies such as gene therapy offer hope for cure of the disease in the future.
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They will have to undergo the risk, anxiety and expense of repeated experimental therapies.
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Treatment options focus on medications, physical rehabilitation (including strength and energy conservation) and experimental therapies.
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Unfortunately, clinical trials have not shown any significant benefit from these experimental therapies so far.
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Additionally, health-related quality of life research may be used as the final step in clinical trials of experimental therapies.
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Use of experimental therapies must be ethically justified, because by definition they raise the question of standard of care.
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Some experimental therapies might also be called drugs of last resort when administered following the failure of all known and currently accepted treatments.
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Agents classified as fourth-line (or greater) treatments or experimental therapies could be considered by default to be drugs of last resort due to their low placement in the treatment hierarchy.
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Children with pleomorphic xanthoastrocytomas would be eligible for a number of experimental therapies available through the consortium.
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