Sentences with phrase «cure rates if»

Some cancer types, even when cancerous cells have traveled to other areas of the body, such as testicular seminoma and leukaemias and lymphomas in children, can have high cure rates if appropriate treatment is provided.

Not exact matches

If we want to break past lackluster economic growth rates and make meaningful change in lives and livelihoods, we need to move beyond incremental innovation (think slightly - better iPhones) toward revolutionary innovation (think new energy systems, next - generation electronics, and cures for Cancer and Alzheimer's).

Indeed, if a bubble was particularly large and persistent, a central bank that used the cure of higher interest rates could end up causing the very economic damage it was trying to prevent.

Howard Cure, the director of municipal research for Evercore Wealth Management, which holds both Thruway and Bridge Authority bonds, said he believed a merger was possible, and would be easiest if the Thruway simply bought out its smaller, better - rated, partner.

Publishing April 4 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the research team compared the shortened radiation therapy schedule of about 5.5 weeks to the standard 8 - week regimen to determine if rates of cure were similar.

The study's objective is to determine if the addition of ibrutinib to standard chemotherapy can increase the cure rate of patients with ABC DLBCL.

There is no cure, vaccine or established drug treatment (one treatment called siRNAs has a high success rate if administered within minutes of infection) and in Africa, often in remote areas, the general approach is containment and palliative care.

The authors say that the study may also explain testicular cancer's high cure rate — virtually 100 % if the disease has not spread, and up to 90 % even if it has.

Although of course there are a number of caveats since mice can be cured from cancer at higher rates, they don't suffer from some of our diseases, they are sensitive to being handled (if grabbing them can shorten their lifespan through stress, the mouse version of standard human medical care may do the same), so I guess that increases in maximum lifespan are indeed the only reliable indicator that an intervention is impacting age - related mortality.

As a side note, if your surgeon wants to «debulk» your colon and / or stomach of cancer cells and tumors, keep this in mind: colon cancer and stomach cancer patients have a lower cure rate than other cancer patients precisely because surgery and chemotherapy damages the ability of their stomach and colon to properly digest foods.

If your surgeon wants to «debulk» your colon and / or stomach of cancer cells and tumors, keep this in mind: Colon cancer and stomach cancer patients have a lower cure rate than other cancer patients precisely because surgery and chemotherapy damage the ability of their stomach and colon to properly digest foods.

As it is, central bank bureaucrats can lower interest rates for the banks, but it does not really cure the bad debt problem, because after a bout over overlending, there will be some that could not repay even if interest were reduced to zero.

If, for example, the participating servicers are anticipating working with borrowers to freeze their rate adjustments, decrease rates, or even help borrowers refinance into a better loan, the program will likely be a shining example of how the private sector can creatively and efficiently cure what the legislature had only just diagnosed.

As a neurosurgeon, you want to capture the patient when they are awake and talking, when you can get in a treat the aneurism and save their life as if you spot the diagnosis, the cure rate is very good (around 95 %).

At any rate, these early reports are encouraging — while Doze Mode isn't a cure - all for your phone's battery life, it will at least ensure that your phone won't be completely drained of juice if you forget to plug it in overnight.