What does PR stand for?

Partial Response

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Vertex said a majority of patients who had had no response to other drugs, or had only a partial response or relapsed after treatment, were free from the virus after being dosed with telaprevir in the study.

Vertex drug helps hepatitis C patients

Overall, 70% of 29 fully evaluated treatments produced either a complete or partial response, where a complete response was defined as a 60% or greater reduction in pain and a partial response was a 33% reduction in pain.

Puffer fish toxin alleviates refractory cancer pain in trial

Twenty-five experienced a complete response, and 11 had a partial response.

Tandem transplants increase response in multiple myeloma patients

Initial response was observed in 15 patients (88%), and at day 36 of the study, 10 patients (59%) had responded; nine with complete response and one with partial response.

Ligand's ONTAK Shows Potential to Treat Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia, ...

Promising activity was seen, with a partial response rate in 6 of 23 patients (26%) with advanced non-small cell lung cancer, most of whom had been previously treated with chemotherapy.

Journal of Clinical Oncology Publishes Phase II Study of IVAX' Oral ...

Initial Phase 2 Efficacy Data: Non Small Cell Lung Cancer: A disease control rate of 78% was achieved in 18 evaluable patients, including 22% partial responses (tumor area reduction greater than 50%) and 56% stable disease (halting of disease progression).

Sonus Pharmaceuticals Lead Cancer Product -- TOCOSOL Paclitaxel -- ...

The ST L6361 integrates a Partial Response Maximum Likelihood (PRML) read channel path based on an advanced 16 state Viterbi detector and coding scheme to enhance signal-to-noise (SNR) performance.

STMicroelectronics Announces Fully Functional CMOS Read Channel for ...

drive products, including advanced Giant Magneto-Resistive heads and MEEPRML (Modified Extended Extended Partial Response Maximum Likelihood) read channels.

Hitachi America Announces New Family of 10,000 RPM Disk Drives for ...