1. Eighty-one patients who had failed conventional therapy took part. 2. But it is understood that a new report is critical of the system developed at the Peto institute in Hungary, finding no difference with conventional therapies. 3. And they worry that patients with aggressive cancers will risk their lives by rejecting conventional therapy. 4. Another early-stage study showed promising results for a new type of AIDS drug for those not helped by conventional therapy. 5. But two years ago, a series of randomized experiments showed the transplants were no better than conventional therapy. 6. C.H.I.P.S.A. doctors did a number of conventional therapies to stabilize Perrot, including radiation and blood infusions, but by then the cancer was ravaging her body. 7. He knows that retooling conventional therapies never will garner the attention of the would-be breakthroughs that seek to starve tumor cells or fix cancer-spawning genes. 8. However, this number includes patients who had relapses following conventional therapy, a group not involved in the new study. 9. I doubt that I would reject out of hand any conventional therapy that holds promise. 10. In four of the five clinical trials, there was no difference in survival between women who had transplants and those who had conventional therapy. |
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