Sentences with phrase «higher survival rates overall»

While most doctors recommend monthly breast self - exams, it's not yet clear if the practice results in higher survival rates overall.

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The researchers found that at five years, very few patients who received chemotherapy experienced disease relapses, showing high rates of distant metastases - free survival, disease - free survival and overall survival, which confirms that they derived benefit from chemotherapy.

In absolute terms, the overall survival rate at five years was 11 % higher in the ipilimumab arm (65 %) than in the placebo arm (54 %).

The five year disease - free and overall survival rates for patients with high - risk malignant germ cell tumours remains less than 50 %, and so accurate diagnosis and monitoring is crucial to improving outcomes for patients.

Patients who had surgery in sunny months — May to August — had a roughly 30 percent higher overall survival rate or time to cancer recurrence than did those getting surgery in the winter.

In the total patient population, the 5 - year overall survival rate was 95 %, although it was significantly higher in non-cirrhotic (97 %) than cirrhotic patients (92 %).

But a model that incorporated both rates showed that the mosquitoes» overall probability of survival is higher at higher temperatures.

Although CRC affects all racial and ethnic groups, African Americans carry an excessive burden of disease with the highest overall incidence, highest incidence of advanced stage at presentation, highest mortality, and lowest survival rates compared to any other ethnic or racial group.

At five - years post-treatment, patients in the HFX arm had the highest overall survival rates at 37.1 percent (HR 0.81, 95 percent CI), compared to 33.7 percent for the AFX - C arm, 29.3 percent for the SFX arm, 29.0 percent for the AFX - S arm.

Regardless of the type of therapy, the prognosis has been a dismal reported median overall survival of 12 - 16 months and high rate of relapse within 1 year [1 - 3].

CPX - 351 resulted in longer overall survival (9.56 versus 5.95 months; P = 0.005) and higher rates of complete response (47.7 % versus 33.3 %; P = 0.016).

In five independent large cohorts in which more than 1100 total patients were followed for overall survival (Desmedt et al., 2007; Esserman et al., 2012; Kao et al., 2011; Pawitan et al., 2005; van de Vijver et al., 2002; Supplementary file 1), high expression level of MELK strongly correlated with increased rates of mortality (all p values < 0.05, hazard ratios > 2)(Figure 2D, Figure 2 — figure supplement 1D).

Overall survival rates for surgical colics are 85 %, small intestinal lesions lower at 50 % to 70 % and large intestinal lesions as high as 90 %.