Sentences with phrase «caucasian patients»

First - generation Chinese, Greek - and Arabic - speaking cancer patients, and Caucasian patients, within six months of diagnosis, were recruited through Oncology clinics in 10 hospitals in NSW and Victoria.

«This research is an important addition to the field because previous studies looking at CYP gene variants and their effects on risks of repeat heart attacks, bleeding and death have included predominantly Caucasian patients of European ancestry,» Cresci noted.

Even when examining only one racial group at a time, the researchers found wide variation in donation rates across the nation's donor service areas: consent rates among Caucasian patients, for example, ranged from 72 to 92 percent across the 58 donor service areas.

Data revealed today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2015 show that the long - term use of entecavir (ETV) or tenofovir (TDF) results in excellent 5 - year survival for Caucasian patients with chronic hepatitis B (CHB), with more than 95 % of patients surviving at 5 years and a significant proportion of deaths coming from liver - unrelated causes.

The findings suggest that the presence of sickle cell trait may explain, at least in part, prior observations of greater doses of anemia medications administered to African - American dialysis patients relative to Caucasian patients.

Their analysis included 2,506 African American and 21,454 Caucasian patients diagnosed with early (non-metastatic) prostate cancer from 2004 to 2007 and treated within 12 months of diagnosis.

International researchers prospectively analyzed and compared tumor and matched plasma DNA for EGFR mutations from 1060 patients that were screened as part of a phase IV, open - label, single - arm, first - line gefitinib in EGFR mutation positive Caucasian patients.

In the group of patients with aggressive, or high risk, prostate cancer, the average number of days from diagnosis to surgery or radiation treatment was 96 days for Caucasian patients, and 105 days for African American patients.

On average, the time from prostate cancer diagnosis to initiation of treatment was seven days longer overall for African American patients compared with Caucasian patients.

In addition to the racial imbalance in MSI, the researchers also found that African - Americans patients were more likely than Caucasian patients to have cancer on the right side of their colon.

Not exact matches

The study, which compared each model's success in Caucasian women with those of Asian descent (Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean and Vietnamese), also raised important questions about the effect of race on cancer development: When Caucasian and Asian patients with similar family histories of breast and ovarian cancer were compared, the Asian women had higher rates of genetic mutation, although the rates of these cancers for Asians have traditionally been lower.

«African - American multiple myeloma patients have higher incidence rates and lower survival rates than their Caucasian peers despite this being a relatively easy - to - treat cancer.

The group of patients Carethers and his colleagues looked at was 45 percent African - American and 55 percent Caucasian.

«There are clearly molecular differences between African - American and Caucasian multiple myeloma cases, and it will be critical to pursue these observations to better improve clinical management of the disease for all patients,» said John D. Carpten, senior author of the study and chair of the Department of Translational Genomics at the Keck School of Medicine.

Lanza previously led a clinical trial in the United States — published November 2014 in the Lancet — that demonstrated embryonic stem cells could be used safely for patients with degenerative eye diseases, but the patient sample was Caucasian with the exception of one African - American.

In this 9 - centre, large ongoing cohort study, researchers evaluated the survival in Caucasian CHB patients with or without cirrhosis who have been receiving ETV or TDF.

Approximately 10 - 15 % of Caucasian and 30 - 35 % of Asian patients with NSCLC have a mutation in the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), which can be successfully targeted with EGFR inhibitors called tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKI), such as erlotinib, gefitinib and afatinib.

To identify new genetic variations associated with different SLE phenotypes, a total of 598,258 different regions on the genome (known as single - nucleotide polymorphisms) were genotyped in a population of 482 Caucasian European SLE patients of Spanish origin recruited from the rheumatology departments of 15 Spanish university hospitals belonging to the IMID Consortium (SLE group).

«The higher risk of tumor recurrence that we observed among African American women was reduced when controlling for those factors, suggesting that these genomic differences contribute, at least partly, to the known racial disparity in the survival of African American and Caucasian breast cancer patients.»

Among patients taking clopidogrel, the one - year mortality rate for African Americans was 7.2 percent, compared with 3.6 percent for Caucasians.

«This study looks at trends over time, comparing appropriate patients who all would have been candidates for the SLN biopsy to see how the new procedure was implemented in African Americans and Caucasians.»

In early - stage premenopausal breast cancer, for example, 10 - year survival rates were 68 % for African Americans versus 77 % for all other patients (mostly Caucasian) in the trials.

Traynor's team examined hundreds of patients and control subjects in Finland, where ALS is nearly twice as common as in other Caucasian populations.

Pro12Ala polymorphism in the peroxisome proliferator - activated receptor - γ2 (PPARγ2) is associated with higher levels of total cholesterol and LDL - cholesterol in male caucasian type 2 diabetes patients

The disease affects one in 10,000 children in Caucasian populations; both copies of the SMN1 gene are defective in patients.

This study examined a group - based intervention for shame based on the principles of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) in patients (N = 133; 61 % female; M = 34 years old; 86 % Caucasian) in a 28 - day residential addictions treatment program.