The patients received no initial therapy for their disease.

The patients were examined again about 9 to 12 months after the initial therapy.

Clearly, chronic Lyme disease is a serious problem that would not have developed if the initial antibiotic therapy had been successful.

Fluid overload and electrolyte imbalance can occur during initial therapy.

Anthracycline-containing chemotherapy regimens are commonly offered as the initial therapy.

Similarly, there has been no prospective validation for failure to achieve certain benchmarks during initial therapy.

However, it may also be the initial therapy prior to future surgical needs.

This results from the ability to effectively salvage patients who relapse after initial therapy.

How quickly the leukemia responds to initial therapy.

Recurrent disease indicates failure of prior chemotherapy unless initial therapy was surgery alone.