Sentences with phrase «median life expectancy»

* That discovery helped fuel new cancer treatments including immunotherapy for metastatic melanoma that has been shown to extend patients» longevity by as much as a decade (median life expectancy for metastatic melanoma is under one year).

What eludes me in this discussion though, is why everyone is getting so excited about this 25 % increase in median life expectancy of mice, when one quick look through Wikipedia would show, that apparently there is a guy called Jake Perry, who managed to successfully keep a cat alive for 38 years, which is TRIPLE the average lifespan of a cat.

Like many genetic diseases, a host of different mutations can trigger the condition, and median life expectancy for patients hovers in the late 30s.

Statistics say the median life expectancy is around 82 - 85 years old.

They say the median life expectancy is about 79 for men and 82 for women.

Surely $ 560,000 is enough to last a 75 - 89 year old for the rest of his or her life since the median life expectancy is roughly 81 - 84.

When President Franklin Roosevelt created the U.S. Social Security System 53 years ago, the median life expectancy was 63.7 years.

«In many developing countries, the median life expectancy for hemophilia patients is 11 years due to the lack of access to treatment, but our new oral delivery of factor IX can now overcome these issues and improve the worldwide use of this therapy.»

Their median life expectancy is around five years but what happens, in fact, is that about half the cats disappear mysteriously presumed dead at approximately age one year (which corresponds to the late teen years in humans) and the other half learn how to take care of themselves and usually live a normal life span of 8 to 12 years.

In most published studies chemotherapy as a follow - up treatment increases the median life expectancy to about one year.

Bruce Fogle, DVM, in his book Caring for Your Dog: The Complete Canine Home Reference, says the median life expectancy of dogs is 12.8 years.

I was originally given a median life expectancy of six years.