palliative therapy

基本解释

Medical treatment plays an important role in gastric carcinoma treated with adjuvant treatment or palliative therapy.
内科治疗在胃癌的辅助治疗和姑息治疗中都占据重要的位置。
Conclusion Interventional embolization is an effective palliative therapy for patients with liver cancer complicated with severe ascites and intrahepatic arteriovenous fistula.
介入封堵肝动脉-门静脉瘘的治疗效果与其有效降低门静脉压力有关。
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HIFU therapy is applicable for treatment of a range of cancers including pancreatic, bladder, prostate, kidney and primary and secondary liver cancer and for both curative and palliative therapy.
高强聚焦超声已被应用于许多癌症的治疗中，包括：胰腺癌，膀胱癌，肾癌，原发和继发性肝癌的根治及姑息性治疗。

Doctors have said that such therapy was not necessarily to try to beat Chavez's cancer into remission but could have been palliative, to extend Chavez's life and ease his suffering.
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