Sentences with phrase «cancer than patient»

After following the patients for an average of 52 months, they found that patients with blood group O were 35 % less likely to have a recurrence of prostate cancer than patient who had blood group A.

Not exact matches

There are few diagnoses more terrifying to patients than cancer.

Because it makes up more than 13 % of all new cancers and nearly 27 % of all cancer deaths in the U.S. Just 17.7 % of diagnosed patients are still alive five years out from their diagnosis.

Martin Shkreli, unaffectionately known as the «pharma bro» — and infamous for his decision to hike the list price of Daraprim, a drug used by HIV / AIDS and cancer patients to combat infections, by more than 5,000 % in 2015 under his former company Turing Pharmaceuticals — was convicted on three criminal securities fraud and conspiracy charges by a Brooklyn jury on Friday.

Patients who exercised more than others had a lower readmission risks following cancer surgery.

But in medicine, impressive technology is little more than a parlor trick if it doesn't benefit patients — like James (who asked to keep his last name private), a 42 - year - old colon cancer patient who had part of his large intestine removed by Sullivan a few months ago.

Cancer is more complex to treat with a vaccine than viruses, like the measles, mumps or flu, and varies according to patient.

This company developed a highly innovative cancer detection technology that costs less than a thousand dollars for the provider and just a few bucks for the patient (compared to current devices that cost providers $ 30,000 and patients $ 1,500).

One setback for these therapies which use the body's immune system to fight cancers is that they are, at times, more effective in certain patient pools than others.

The study, just published in Science, showed that the creation of what the researchers are calling microtumors can help predict drug effectiveness in cancer patients better than the current standard method of testing the drugs on rodents.

The goal is to use a patient's DNA, rather than a tissue sample, to diagnose cancer.

That's not just because of Opdivo's failure — last month, Keytruda was shown to be better than standard chemotherapy in untreated advanced lung cancer patients with high levels of the PD - L1 protein, both stopping cancer progression and extending patients» lives.

A glut of liquid biopsy companies have emerged from universities and elsewhere in recent years to catch cancer by relying on a patient's DNA, rather than having to extract their tissue.

They'll also jointly market Pfizer's drug Xalkori, which is approved in more than 75 countries for treating non-small cell lung cancer in patients with a certain genetic mutation.

The drug already has undergone initial testing in more than 550 patients with multiple types of cancer.

The company's cloud - based platform collects a patient's DNA and can screen more than 1,000 problematic genes to detect conditions such as hereditary cancer, neurological conditions, or cardiovascular disorders.

Why does God provide different types of blessings for cancer patients than He does for an amputee?

He is not blaming the victims any more than you blame the cancer patient for his cancer.

At last, in his desperation, the question hit him: «Well, how much better off am I than a cancer patient?

But he approves of it in the case of a physician who» knowingly facilitated» the suicide of a patient whom he had treated for a long time, knew well, and who had convinced him early on that she preferred to die rather than go through a long and losing battle with cancer.

Surely, for a patient who can no longer assimilate food, N&H provides no benefit; similarly, some stomach cancer cases result in feeding the tumor instead of the patient; and there are those who are so fragile that almost any invasive insert causes more problems than it relieves.

The essay «God as Monica's Breast» is worth the price of the volume, and the «Consenting to Die» essay, which discusses suicide and death as something to do» rather than just wait for, breaks into a fictional discussion between a doctor and a cancer patient.

Some can not... at least, not to any more of a degree than that terminally ill cancer patient.

Armstrong has more than given back to cancer patients all over the world with his name, money and positive attitude.

About Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center: The world's oldest and largest private cancer center, Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has devoted more than a century to patient care as well as to innovative research, making significant contributions to new and better therapies for the treatment of cCancer Center: The world's oldest and largest private cancer center, Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has devoted more than a century to patient care as well as to innovative research, making significant contributions to new and better therapies for the treatment of ccancer center, Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) has devoted more than a century to patient care as well as to innovative research, making significant contributions to new and better therapies for the treatment of cCancer Center (MSKCC) has devoted more than a century to patient care as well as to innovative research, making significant contributions to new and better therapies for the treatment of cancercancer.

This is why cancer patients using alternative diet treatments as an adjunct to medicinal care often do * worse * than cancer patients who stick to just medical care.

When polled about the emotional effects of having a disease, patients with psoriasis rank higher than those with cancer and heart disease.

Today, targeted chemotherapy and more precise surgery means that more breast cancer patients are surviving than ever.

Not surprising, for almost all cancers, US patients have less advanced disease at diagnosis than in Europe.

The founders of the Manhattan law firm that paid then - Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver more than $ 3 million for referring cancer patients to the firm for potential lawsuits said Wednesday they never expected Silver to use his legislative job to secure the referrals.

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 100 times more powerful than morphine, is traditionally used as a painkiller for extreme cases like end - of - life cancer patients.

The service masks so much inequity for Welsh patients, but nothing lays bare the unfairness of Labour's NHS more than their refusal to consider a Cancer Drugs Fund.

For more than 30 years, New York Oncology Hematology has been delivering world class care to patients with cancer and blood disorders — right here in New York's Greater Capital Region.

Macmillan's Cancer in the UK 2014 report shows that the majority (3 in every 4) of cancer patients want to die at home, but fewer than a third are able to Cancer in the UK 2014 report shows that the majority (3 in every 4) of cancer patients want to die at home, but fewer than a third are able to cancer patients want to die at home, but fewer than a third are able to do so.

Sara Hiom, Cancer Research UK's director of health information, said: «Survival rates for breast cancer have been improving for more than 20 years - eight out of ten patients now survive more than five Cancer Research UK's director of health information, said: «Survival rates for breast cancer have been improving for more than 20 years - eight out of ten patients now survive more than five cancer have been improving for more than 20 years - eight out of ten patients now survive more than five years.

He said he'd rather put his faith in the F.D.A. or the Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, where he receives treatment, than the state health department when it comes to determining if medical marijuana will actually benefit cancer patCancer Center, where he receives treatment, than the state health department when it comes to determining if medical marijuana will actually benefit cancer patcancer patients.

His bill would limit its application to epilepsy, intractable skeletal muscular spasticity, traumatic brain injury, glaucoma, cachexia, wasting syndrome, Dravet syndrome, HIV / AIDS, Cancer, ALS, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, Crohn's disease, and terminal illnesses if a patient has a prognosis of less than 12 months to live.

As a result, waiting times are higher in Wales, cancer patients are being denied life - prolonging drugs which they would have access to if they lived in England, and spending on medicines has «decreased at a faster rate than elsewhere in the UK», according to the Office for Health Economics.

Manhattan - based Weitz & Luxenberg paid Silver more than $ 3 million in referral fees from legal settlements and verdicts won on behalf of patients suffering from mesothelioma, a cancer caused by exposure to asbestos.

And using cells from someone other than the cancer patient being treated might trigger an immune response against the foreign cells.

His lab is located in the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, in a building that sits adjacent and is connected to The Christie — the largest single - site cancer center in the United Kingdom, where more than 44,000 patients a year are trCancer Research UK Manchester Institute, in a building that sits adjacent and is connected to The Christie — the largest single - site cancer center in the United Kingdom, where more than 44,000 patients a year are trcancer center in the United Kingdom, where more than 44,000 patients a year are treated.

Similarly, Balboni wrote, the cancer patients who relied on private, unspoken religious beliefs to manage their illness were «nearly three times more likely to receive intensive life - prolonging care near death and less likely to enter hospice during the final weeks of life» than those without a pronounced religious sense.

That study showed how a similar model can be used to understand immune response in patients with pancreatic cancer who survive longer than others.

«These relationships were particularly strong in patients who experienced greater emotional aspects of religion and spirituality, including a sense of meaning and purpose in life as well as a connection to a source larger than oneself,» said lead author Heather Jim, PhD, of the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa.

«First mathematical model that predicts immunotherapy success: Researchers also helped craft similar model to predict why some pancreatic cancer patients survive longer than others.»

Despite complications sometimes more severe than with standard radiation therapy — and costs that are much higher for taxpayers, patients and insurers — proton beam therapy is heavily marketed for treatment of prostate cancer.

For more than a decade, physicians convinced breast cancer patients that bone marrow transplants were their best hope of salvation.

We are currently in the process of developing a nose structure for a patient whose nose has been lost though cancer, using a resorbable plate mesh, rather than titanium which needs to be removed after.»

Partly because of a marketing push, prostate cancer patients have flocked to proton therapy despite the lack of evidence that it's better than less expensive treatment.

About 52 percent (34 of 66) of patients had personality - related problems, although sometimes without a formal diagnosis and more than a majority of patients had at least one coexisting illness, including cancer, cardiac disease, diabetes, stroke and others.