Meanings of mainstay treatment in English

Background: Surgical resection is the mainstay treatment for resectable esophageal cancer.

Resection remains the mainstay treatment for early-stage gastroesophageal neuroendocrine tumors.

Since their introduction many decades ago, systemic corticosteroids have become a mainstay treatment for asthma.

When EC is advanced (stage 4), systemic therapy is the mainstay treatment for palliation.

Despite lack of universally accepted treatment recommendations, the mainstay treatment includes thyroidectomy and systematic lymph node dissection.

Depending on site of infection and risk factors, surgical debridement in combination with systemically active antifungal drugs are the mainstay treatment strategies.

Tamoxifen, an estrogen receptor (ER) antagonist, is the mainstay treatment of breast cancer and the development of resistance represents a major obstacle for a cure.

Diagnosis is currently based on subjective symptom scores, and mainstay treatments can be ineffective and bothersome.