Median survival time for dogs with nosebleeds was 88 days vs. 224 days for dogs with carcinomas that did not have nose bleeds.
Median survival time for all dogs was 136 days (mean 179 + / -18 days).
The median survival time for cats after FeLV is diagnosed is 2.5 years.
The median survival time for a cat diagnosed with FIV is approximately five years.
The median survival time for dogs with severe SAS who do not receive treatment is 19 months.
The median survival time for most dogs on chemotherapy is approximately one year with 25 % of dogs surviving two years.
Of the dogs stricken with osteosarcoma, 35 had the cancer in a leg which was subsequently amputated, followed by chemotherapy, which is the standard - of - care treatment; the dogs with elevated total cholesterol had a median survival time of 455 days, more than 200 days greater than
the median survival time for dogs with normal cholesterol.
Not exact matches
At five years, 34 of the 102 patients had achieved a complete response (disappearance of their cancer
for a period of
time), with an estimated 64 percent of patients surviving with or without disease (
median five - year overall
survival was 40.5 months) and an estimated 52 percent surviving without disease progression.
The tumors grew rapidly in the control experiments (the
median time for tumor - free
survival was one week) and any differences in tumor - free
survival for the controls and the mice injected with cells expressing mutated PREX2 were not statistically significant (Horrigan et al., 2017).
In one study,
median survival time was 118 days
for dogs with evidence of tumor invasion of other local organs compared with 218 days
for dogs with no evidence of invasion beyond the urinary bladder.
The
median survival time of cats that used aspirin
for future clot prevention was 192 days while the
median survival time of cats that used clopidrogrel bisulfate was 443 days.
Monitoring
for bone marrow suppression is needed with a medication this strong, but in one study with 10 affected dogs all were able to achieve remission and
median survival time was 531 days.
Median survival time of the treated dogs was 14 months compared to less than one month
for dogs receiving no treatment.
The important factors that tend to predict prognosis are the size of tumors (dogs with tumors greater than 10.7 cm2 had
median survivals of 9.7 months vs. 19 months
for tumors smaller than 10.7 cm2) and hypercalcemia (patients with elevated calcium levels had
median survival times of 8.5 months vs. 19.5
for patients with normal calcium levels).
Recently, a
median survival time of 7 months was reported
for dogs receiving radiation therapy along with chemotherapy; whereas a combination of surgery and chemotherapy showed more encouraging
median survival rates of 235 - 366 days with up to 28 % surviving two years after diagnosis.
Prognosis is variable, and the
median survival time is reported to be 563 days
for cats with heart failure.
I can't recall seeing a study that gave a
median or average
survival time for this condition but my impression is that you are basically correct in your assessment of the how well steroids work.