Sentences with phrase «curable stages»

This often results in the inability for doctors to treat patients» illnesses or other medical problems during the earliest, most - curable stages.

The detection of melanoma at its most curable stages can result in decades of high - quality life saved, versus the treatment of this terrible disease at late stages, which offers several months of life extension, at best.»

Over 90 percent of prostate cancers are detected at a curable stage, with men more likely to die of other diseases than from this cancer.

Stool Test Detects Earliest, Curable Stage of Colon Cancer Kimmel Cancer Center scientists have developed a safe and reliable stool test that can detect colon cancer in its earliest, curable stages.

Unfortunately, people of color are more likely to find out they have melanoma when it's at an advanced and less curable stage.

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«We want to shift away from that fear - based marketing and focus on the fact that approximately 90 percent of cancers are curable if caught in stage I.»

Cancer is most curable at stage I,» Cohen says.

Stage 4 cancer is not curable so I will continue to have cat scans and bone scans every four months to ensure the cancer is not spreading.

Prostate cancer is highly curable, with a 94 percent 15 - year relative survival rate for early stages.

This has important implications, especially for cancers such as melanomas of the skin and of the eye, which are 100 % curable when detected at an early stage.

«Cancer is most curable when it's detected at its earliest stages.

«Early stage disease is curable,» adds co-author Bernadette Cracchiolo, director of gynecologic oncology at the school, «but late stage and recurrent disease have limited treatment options.

Breast cancer is becoming a curable disease when diagnosed at an early stage; however, the majority of cancer - related death is still attributed to metastatic disease.

Moreover, there is evidence that minorities are more likely to present with advanced stage and thicker melanomas that are not curable.

We know that far too many patients with curable cancers if they are caught at earlier stage, colon cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, these cancers are still detected late when they are less amenable to curative treatments.

Finally, yet another phase 3 study — albeit one with less encouraging results — found that the monoclonal antibody drug cetuximab (Erbitux) did not aid people with (potentially curable) early - stage colon cancer if they carried the normal form of the KRAS gene.

Inspite of all the misconceptions with regard to cancer, the one fact that all medical fraternity agrees on is that cancer is now curable if it is diagnosed at an early stage.