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Example sentences for: ecog
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It has been widely thought, but never been proven that the specific tyrosine kinase inhibitors such as Gleevec can be used as adjuvant therapy in combination with conventional chemotherapy, because the limited clinical trial data suggests only a marginal benefits using this kind of drug to treat the cancer alone (John Rogers, WVU Cancer center, ECOG trial member, personal communication).
The prognostic factors found to be significant on univariate analysis were ECOG performance score, gender and number of metastatic sites.
ECOG: Eastern Cooperative Oncology
Female patients, patients with fewer metastatic sites and patients with an ECOG performance 0 had a statistically significant improved survival.