Sentences with phrase «cure rates of»

With cure rates of childhood cancer topping 80 percent, the population of adult survivors who need tailored long - term care is burgeoning.

While certain patients, particularly infants, enjoy cure rates of 90 percent or better, the outlook is worse for high - risk patients, including those whose disease has spread widely.

While the new mid-stage study results from DNDi were impressive (they showed cure rates of 96 % to 97 % even for the sickest patients and those with liver scarring), more late - stage trials will be necessary before the drug is available on a large scale in the developing world.

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.

Using an approach developed at Maisonneuve - Rosemont, consisting of an autograft to reduce tumour mass followed by a family allograft three to four months later to clean the bone marrow of myeloma cells with immune cells from a family donor (immunotherapy), the study resulted in a total cure rate of 41 %, a record level using this strategy.

It's a very difficult treatment, with a cure rate of 50 percent,» said Jeffrey Teckman, M.D., professor of pediatrics and principal investigator of the study at SLU.

Researchers used data collected from more than 1,900 chronic hepatitis C patients treated with LDV / SOF, which has a cure rate of between 94 and 99 percent with minimal side effects.

clinical trial early for ethical reasons when they saw that the overall cure rate of 94 percent with donor feces had far outpaced the 31 percent cured with the antibiotic vancomycin.

Not exact matches

The idea of the Greenspan Put was that lower interest rates would cure the market's woes.

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.

About 1971, however, there was a major turn in my pilgrimage as I gradually became painfully aware of the so - called outcome studies reporting the dubious effectiveness of average psychotherapy, whose cure rates barely match spontaneous remission, coupled with the frightening spectre of client deterioration (i.e., patients finding their condition worsening under the care of professional psychotherapists).

Either a woman is actually raped (South Africa has the highest rate of rape in the world; the rumor of the «virgin cure» has sent male AIDS patients on the hunt for younger and younger girls to rape), or she is pressured socially and economically.

This holds whether we are thinking of how to grow more grain in the tropics, reduce the birth rate, control inflation, stimulate economic growth, get rid of tooth decay, provide better health care, find some way to turn garbage into a useful resource, reduce air pollution, win the next election, avoid war with Russia, develop human potential, extend the length of life, or find a cure for cancer.

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Moving from prevention to cure, a lack of resources for sexual health services has also been blamed for failing to reverse rising rates of infection.

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.

The primary aim is to investigate the use of targeted therapy using antibodies and antibody - conjugates and remove toxic chemotherapy and radiation from the treatment to maintain high cure rates and decrease late effects.

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.

Inserting a «mid-urethral sling», a type of tape, to support the muscles of the bladder by either the groin or abdomen results in similar cure rates.

These results open the door for other studies based on checkpoint blockade to try and improve cure rates in the adjuvant setting of melanoma as well as other disease types.

A new drug is offering dramatic cure rates for hepatitis C patients with two subtypes of the infection — genotype 2 and 3, say a team of scientists led by Weill Cornell Medical College researchers.

«The results of the ION studies demonstrated highly satisfactory cure rates with a fixed dose combination of sofosbuvir / ledipasvir among patients with genotype 1 HCV infection without the use of either injectable interferon, which causes miserable flu - like symptoms, or ribavirin, an antiviral pill associated with a variety of troublesome side effects, including anemia and rash,» Professor Peck - Radosavljevic continued.

The experiment worked, and last year a review of 317 patients treated by 27 different research groups found an astounding 92 percent cure rate from this unusual therapy.

It has a high success rate, where over 90 % of the patients are cured.

Some kinds of cancer, such as of the skin or the breast, already have relatively high cure rates, and as techniques improve, those rates should get better.

«With cure rates for pediatric cancer at historic highs, the question becomes what is the legacy of that cure?

Thriving bacteria raise blood levels of the hormone precursor procalcitonin, for example; guiding treatment based on procalcitonin concentrations led to half as much antibiotic use across seven studies, with no drop in cure rates.

Up to half of women with advanced - stage ovarian cancer might be cured, compared to the current 20 per cent survival rate, argues Dr. Steven Narod, senior scientist at Women's College Research Institute, who calls for a new standard of treatment for women with late - stage ovarian cancer.

Although the cure rate for breast cancer is high — it has an 89 percent 5 - year survival rate — a large number of patients have a recurrence of their cancer.

«The advent of new antiviral agents for hepatitis C will shorten treatment duration, likely increasing the number of people offered treatment, and improving cure rates, which are the final two steps of the hepatitis C treatment cascade,» said Yehia.

A new perspective paper written by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and published in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that «new antiviral therapies with cure rates exceeding 95 percent should prompt transplant - community leaders to view HCV (hepatitis C virus)- positive organs as a valuable opportunity for transplant candidates with or without pre-existing HCV infection.»

The study, published as correspondence in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that cure rates in Europe were 61 per cent according to TBNET's new definitions, compared to only 31 per cent when using the standard criteria proposed by the WHO.

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 higher cure rate and lessened side - effects of treating patients with an all - oral combination of ledipasvir and sofosbuvir (LDV / SOF) results in greatly reduced absenteeism and improved workplace productivity that can translate into enormous benefit, according to the new economic model used by researchers at Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, VA..

A new study by French and UK researchers published in a leading journal this week suggests that should no cure be found for dementia, then the biggest impact on reducing rates of this progressive brain destroying disease is likely to come from eliminating diabetes and depression and boosting education, as well as encouraging people to eat more fruit and vegetables.

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.

This often reduces the chance of recovery significantly: the cure rate for prostate cancer is 32 percent and only 11 percent for colon cancer.

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.

Blood cancer affects thousands of individuals each year, and despite impressive early therapeutic advances, cure rates for most blood cancers have reached a plateau.

«For certain childhood cancers like high - risk neuroblastoma and bone tumors, we have not backed off of therapy, because cure rates remain unacceptably low,» he said.

Cure rates are higher for patients with lower stages (stages 1 - 3) of disease.

Because treatment cure rates have increased, the population of childhood cancer survivors has also increased.

Further, most cancer treatments are based on damaging cancer cells, so understanding why a chemotherapy works, and for which patients, should lead to more effective and less toxic treatments that will increase the cure rate and improve quality of life for cancer survivors.

The long - term goal of the center is to develop novel, individualized therapeutic strategies to increase the cure rate for lung cancer.

But we need to be vigilant as cure rates have fallen in areas where artemisinin resistance is established,» said Dr Elizabeth Ashley, lead scientist of the TRAC study and Clinical Researcher at the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), University of Oxford.

Gal Shafirstein, DSc, Director of PDT Clinical Research, Professor of Oncology and member of the Cell Stress Biology Department at Roswell Park, points out that PDT treatment is intended to improve the cure rate for cancer.

Both diseases have high fatality rates (around 3 to 4 of every 10 patients reported with MERS have died) and like Ebola, there is no vaccine or cure for MERS.

«With the regimens that are out there now, there can be just one pill with few side effects and cure rates over 95 %, closing in on 98 % to 99 %,» says Eugene Schiff, MD, professor of medicine and director of the Schiff Center for Liver Diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

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.