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When this regimen is used together with CNS prophylaxis, remission rates of greater than 95% have been achieved in children.
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Remission induction therapy. The purpose of the first phase of treatment is to kill the leukemia cells in your blood and bone marrow.
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Remission induction therapy: This is the first phase of treatment. Its purpose is to kill the leukemia cells in the blood and bone marrow. This puts the leukemia into remission.
Maintenance therapy: This is the second phase of treatment.
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Remission is most likely to occur in the first year and the probability decreases as time progresses. By 10 to 15 years from diagnosis, about 20% of people will have had remission.
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REMISSION: The lessening of the severity or duration of outbreaks of a disease, or the abatement (diminution in degree or intensity) of symptoms altogether over a period of time.
RENAL: Pertaining to the kidneys.
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Remission is most likely to occur in the first year. The probability decreases over time. By 10 to 15 years from diagnosis, about 20% of people have remission.
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RemissionA disappearance of a disease as a result of treatment. Complete remission means that all disease is gone. Partial remission means that the disease is significantly improved by treatment, but residual traces of the disease are still present.
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remission
A decrease in or disappearance of signs and symptoms of cancer. In partial remission, some, but not all, signs and symptoms of cancer have disappeared.
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The likelihood of remission is greater early in the course of the disease. Each attack seems to be worse than those preceding it.
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Remission is the goal in this stage of treatment. Remission means the leukemia cells are no longer visible under the microscope when examining either the bone marrow or blood.
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Although follow up research showed that the average remission period is 5.5. months, recurrent attacks tend to less severe than originally treated, and almost without exception, patients continue to respond well to the Dead Sea therapy .
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Indication: (1) treatment of Paget disease of the bone (osteitis deformans) to induce remission in patients who have a level of serum alkaline phosphatase at least two times the upper limit of normal, are symptomatic, ...
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Recurrence The reappearance of a disease after a period of remission. Red blood cells (Erythrocytes) Cells in the blood that deliver oxygen to tissues and take carbon dioxide from them.
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It is characterized by 1-3 short attacks of pain around the eyes per day, with these attacks clustered over a stretch of 1-2 months followed by a pain-free remission, a breathing spell. The average length of remission is a year.
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He explained further that remission was possible on a daily basis by cultivating a mode of behaviour which will make drinking unnecessary and undesirable in my life. This however was a spiritual process, and could not be done alone.
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There is often marked improvement, however, or even total remission of the disease when the child reaches puberty. And three out of every four patients with the disease eventually enter remission with very little damage that lasts.
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Myasthenia gravis is a chronic disease, although there may be periods of remission, when symptoms disappear. Current treatments, however, can allow most people with myasthenia gravis to live normal or near-normal lives.
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Complete long term remission of advanced cancers. 50 years of success.
Asbestos has been linked to the lung cancer type mesothelioma.
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While lupus is a chronic illness, it is characterized by periods when the disease activity is minimal or absent (remission) and when it is active (relapse or flare).
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A child whose leukemia has gone into remission (meaning that all detectable abnormal cells have disappeared) must be watched carefully for signs of relapse, particularly within the first year after the drugs are stopped.
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Metrazol and insulin accounted for a very limited number of remissions in cases of schizophrenia. However, the injection of insulin often caused coma, while Metrazol and electric shock resulted in convulsions similar to those of epileptics.
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Experts don't know what causes Graves' disease to go into remission. Some people develop hypothyroidism (an underproduction of thyroid hormone) after Graves' disease goes away.
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The symptoms usually come and go. Flare-ups of symptoms alternate with times when you have no symptoms (remissions).
Symptoms include:
diarrhea, usually with blood or mucus
crampy pain in your lower abdomen
dehydration
fever
weight loss
fatigue.
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However, sometimes a patient with a very high fever from an infection upon recovery from the infection enters into a most improbable remission from an unrelated disease or is even cured of it! ...
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These medications can control symptoms and often produce long-term remissions. Steroids should be used only when necessary, and under a physician's guidance, to avoid serious side effects.
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Researchers have little information about pregnancy and IC / PBS but believe that the disorder does not affect fertility or the health of the fetus. Some women find that their IC / PBS goes into remission during pregnancy, ...
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A progressive disorder of the central nervous system in which scattered patches of the protective sheath covering the nerves is destroyed. The disease, which causes progressive paralysis, is marked by periods of exacerbation and remission.
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In more severe cases, medications such as 6-mercaptopurine, azathioprine or cyclosporine can be used. Treatment with one or more of these medicines gives relief for most sufferers and produces a complete remission of symptoms lasting at least five ...
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