In women with advanced cervical carcinoma, adding thymalin to radiotherapy allowed wider application of radical surgery than radiotherapy alone.
In plain wordsIn women with advanced cervical cancer, adding thymalin to radiotherapy allowed wider use of radical surgery than radiotherapy alone.
- Peptide
- Thymalin
- Outcome
- IncreaseApplication of radical surgery
- Study
n = 96
- Comparator
- Radiotherapy alone
- Outcome group
- Cancer treatment response · Cancer
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Source sentences
The results showed the latter therapeutic modality to offer clear advantage over radiotherapy alone, viz. it allowed wider application of radical surgery and assured better results of treatment of patients previously considered incurable.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Fifty-eight females of the control group received complex split-course radiotherapy whereas in 38 patients of the study group radiation was supplemented with thymalin immunotherapy at the first and second stages.