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- noun medicine A form of
chemotherapy in which thedrug isinjected directly into theblood vessels which feed thetumour
Etymologies
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The biopsy patients' stress levels were on average 18 out of 40, compared with fibroid embolization patients' average score of 16 and 15 for chemoembolization patients.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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In contrast, chemoembolization patients had an average anxiety score of 26 and fibroid embolization patients, an average score of
Reuters: Top News 2010
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Treatment options for HCC include chemotherapy, chemoembolization, ablation and proton-beam therapy.
innovations-report 2010
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Average depression levels were also highest among breast biopsy patients, who scored 15 on a separate scale of zero to 40, with chemoembolization patients averaging a score of 14, and fibroid embolization patients, 12.
Reuters: Top News 2010
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Functional MRI may predict response of hepatocellular carcinoma to chemoembolization
WN.com - Articles related to Physicians in Qatar work on treatment of ovarian cancer 2010
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Treatment options for HCC include chemotherapy, chemoembolization, ablation and proton-beam therapy.
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Treatment options for HCC include chemotherapy, chemoembolization, ablation and proton-beam therapy.
innovations-report 2010
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Y-90 treatment adds to interventional radiology's nonsurgical advances for liver cancer, such as delivering chemotherapy directly to the affected organ (chemoembolization), killing the tumor with heat
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories PhysOrg Team 2010
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Treatment options for HCC include chemotherapy, chemoembolization, ablation and proton-beam therapy.
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United States investigated whether intra-procedural diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging can predict response of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) during transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE).
WN.com - Articles related to Physicians in Qatar work on treatment of ovarian cancer 2010
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