Temsirolimus is usually given once each week unless your cancer progresses or you have serious side effects from the medication.
But some pre-clinical cancers will not progress to cause problems for patients.
In many older men, the cancer progresses so slowly that surgery and other treatments may cause more harm than good.
The cancer can progress rapidly to cause death sooner than other breast cancers.
Despite the surgery, the cancer progressed and a course of chemotherapy was not effective.
When his cancer progressed far enough to leave him with no hope, he chose to be Changed rather than die.
For them, the median time before the cancer progressed was about two months.
The patients had already undergone a variety of treatments but the cancer was progressing.
The formal "stage" of a cancer does not change over time, even if the cancer progresses.
Animal tumor models are used to learn how a cancer may progress and to test new treatments.