Sentences with phrase «cent of all patients with»

The drug erlotinib is prescribed to between 10 — 30 per cent of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, which accounts for 85 per cent of all lung cancer cases.

This test may be particularly useful for patients with high grade serous ovarian cancer because the mutated cancer gene TP53 is found in more than 99 per cent of patients with this form of the disease.

Meanwhile, diabetic retinopathy - the most common form of diabetic eye disease — affects between 40 and 50 per cent of patients with diabetes and is a leading cause of blindness in the Western world.

Only two per cent of patients with life - threatening bleeding after serious injury receive optimal blood transfusion therapy in England and Wales, according to research led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and NHS Blood and Transplant.

Overall, only two per cent of all patients with massive hemorrhage received what might be considered the optimal transfusion of a high dose of clotting products in conjunction with red blood cells during the first hour of arrival within the Emergency Department.

After chemotherapy, as many as 65 per cent of patients with breast cancer report memory lapses, difficulty concentrating, taking longer to complete tasks and difficulty multitasking.

Approximately 30 per cent of patients with epilepsy do not respond to anti-epileptic drugs.

The drug erlotinib is prescribed to between 10 - 30 per cent of patients with non-small cell lung cancer, which accounts for 85 per cent of all lung cancer cases.

Previous research has shown that between 4 and 6 per cent of patients with CTE will also simultaneously show clinical features of ALS — that's 800 fold higher than the prevalence of ALS in the general population.

Not exact matches

Among this group, top reasons for leaving were working conditions (for example staffing levels and workload), cited by 44 per cent, a change in personal circumstances (such as ill health), cited by 28 per cent and disillusionment with the quality of care provided to patients, cited by 27 per cent.

«You know they've won games with 30, 25 per cent possession — that means they know what they want to do and are patient to have that killing instinct of a snake.

«You know they've won games with 30, 25 per cent possession - that means they know what they want to do and are patient to have that killing instinct of a snake.

The report found that 47 per cent of carers said being in hospital had a significant negative effect on patients» health, with over half saying that the person's dementia also worsened.

In patients with muscle spasticity, 25 per cent of those taking a placebo saw a moderate improvement compared to 35 per cent on medical cannabis.

Within the test cohort, all patients with MS had central veins in more than 45 per cent of brain lesions, while the rest had central veins visible in less than 45 per cent of lesions.

The median survival for patients is 15 months, with less than five per cent of patients surviving beyond five years.

The clear result of this clinical study — that the combination reduced strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular death by practically 25 per cent compared to either drug alone in both patients with stable coronary or peripheral artery disease — caused the clinical trial to be stopped early, after 23 months, in February 2017.

Although aspirin reduces the risk of major cardiovascular events by 19 per cent, a more effective antithrombotic strategy could have major benefits for the large population of patients with stable cardiovascular disease.

Since the international Delta trial began in 1992, the death rate of patients who received «combination therapy» has fallen by 38 per cent compared with patients who were treated with a single drug.

The researchers estimated that if an average - sized GP practice with 7,000 patients reduced its antibiotic prescribing to people with respiratory tract infections by 10 per cent, there could be one extra case of pneumonia each year.

«It is estimated that at least ten per cent of blindness from glaucoma is directly caused by poor patient adherence to their prescribed medications,» says Dr Wong, an Adjunct Associate Professor with NTU's School of Materials Science and Engineering.

The risk of re-admission was around 30 per cent lower if patients were treated with long - acting injections compared to their receiving the same antipsychotic medication but orally.

The results indicate that from the age of 25 to 39 about a third of patients will have a false positive, and as screening extends to age 75, almost 80 per cent of women screened with MRI will have at least one false positive.

Usually, treatment would require whole - brain radiation which is extremely toxic and the average survival time is just 3 - 6 months from diagnosis, with fewer than 20 per cent of patients surviving more than one year.

Among type - 2 diabetic patients with an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease — those with high levels of triglycerides and low levels of «good» cholesterol (high - density lipoprotein or HDL)-- fenofibrate cut adverse cardiovascular outcomes by 30 per cent in women and 24 per cent in men.

A single infusion of the gene therapy drug showed improved levels of the essential blood clotting protein Factor VIII, with 85 per cent of patients achieving normal or near - normal Factor VIII levels even many months after treatment.

Ivacaftor is the first drug to treat the underlying causes of cystic fibrosis rather than just its symptoms and is currently approved for patients with the «celtic gene» mutation carried by about four per cent of all patients and 10 - 15 per cent of patients in Ireland.

Combining morphine, a narcotic pain reliever, and nortriptyline, an antidepressant, has been found to successfully relieve chronic neuropathic pain — or a localized sensation of pain due to abnormal function of the nervous system — in 87 per cent of patients, and significantly better than with either drug alone.

Now, researchers at DTU Systems Biology have combined genetics with computer science and created a new diagnostic technology based on advanced self - learning computer algorithms which — on the basis of a biopsy from a metastasis — can with 85 per cent certainty identify the source of the disease and thus target treatment and, ultimately, improve the prognosis for the patient.

Around 40 to 50 per cent of melanoma patients have a faulty BRAF gene and they can be treated with the targeted drugs vemurafenib or dabrafenib.

Incidences of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) are happening more often, with patients facing low chances of surviving the disease using current treatments - this can be as low as five per cent survival rate 12 months after diagnosis.

In the 52 patients treated with honey, 91 per cent of wounds were rendered sterile within 7 days.

So with that in mind, there's a ton of testing that we can do, but I try to pinpoint the testing at what makes the most cent for the patient.

The response to treatment was recorded as good (no significant residual complaints) in 40 per cent or more of patients taking 100 - 150 mg pyridoxine daily and in 60 per cent of patients treated with 160 - 200 mg daily.

Forty four per cent of patients receiving these drugs had NSAID induced enteropathy when assessed by this technique; 20 % of these had comparable levels of inflammation to that previously reported in patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

A massive analysis of nearly a million patients found 50 per cent diagnosed with pancreatic cancer had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes the previous year.

This week one of my patients needed a cystocentesis (cyst - toe - cent - pieces with a silent P) performed.

«For instance, the Victorian Aboriginal Health Service in Melbourne has immunisation rates that show an average of 91 per cent of their child patients are fully immunised, compared with rates of less than 50 per cent for Aboriginal children across Victoria.»

The MRI incentive paid to providers for bulk billing concessional patients and children will be reduced from 100 per cent of the Medicare fee to 95 per cent to line up with the current arrangements for other diagnostic imaging services.

The Clinical Pathway also identified 110 patients (55 per cent) with moderate / high risk of depression.