Sentences with phrase «months after the diagnosis»

Patients can expect to live 12 to 15 months after diagnosis.

The first weeks and months after diagnosis can be quite difficult as the learning curve is steep, but thankfully it's over rather quickly.

As well as cutting gluten out of your diet, your GP or dietitian may also recommend you take vitamin and mineral supplements, at least for the first six months after your diagnosis.

Glioblastoma, the most common brain tumor in adults, has no effective long - term treatment and on average, patients live for 12 to 15 months after diagnosis, according to the National Cancer Institute.

In cases of uveal melanoma metastasis, patients typically succumb within two to eight months after diagnosis.

Glioblastoma accounts for about 15 percent of all brain tumors, is resistant to current therapies and has a survival as short as 15 months after diagnosis.

«Mesothelioma, a tumor that is caused by asbestos exposure, has been extremely hard to treat; and patients usually survive only 12 to 18 month after diagnosis,» says Mark Poznansky, MD, PhD, director of the MGH - VIC and senior author of the report.

A recent study showed approximately one - fifth of patients with cancer experienced post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) several months after diagnosis, and many of these patients continued to live with PTSD years later.

Those with limited SCLC live, on average, 14 - 20 months after diagnosis; those with extensive disease live only 9 - 11 months after being diagnosed.

Incidences of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) are happening more often, with patients facing low chances of surviving the disease using current treatments - this can be as low as five per cent survival rate 12 months after diagnosis.

The treatment did not work in three of the patients, and it was also unlikely to work in patients more than three months after diagnosis of diabetes, said Dr Richard Burt of Northwestern.

The University of Melbourne Bertalli Chair in Cancer Medicine, Professor Sean Grimmond, said clinicians had limited time to decide on treatment, as the average patient survives only three to six months after diagnosis.

The cardiovascular death rate, meanwhile, was more than twice as high among the men in the first month after diagnosis than it was among cancer - free men, although it was just 9 % higher over the course of the whole year.

In the few months after her diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in early 2007, Virginia Shreve, a 51 - year - old school social worker in Lynchburg, Va., wanted to follow the regimen of sensible eating and exercise that her doctor recommended.

A few months after the diagnosis, doctors discovered a leaky heart valve.

I did not risk eating anything else because I have gotten sick from gluten cross contamination at fast food restaurants more times than I can count, especially in the first 6 months after diagnosis.

When this younger celiac was in her first year, only a few months after diagnosis, March rolled around and that meant soda bread season was in full swing.

A month after the diagnosis, with my chemotherapy treatments about to begin, I obliquely mentioned, just before the bell rang, that I would be missing one day a week for a while for what I referred to as «treatment for a medical condition.»

Did you know most dogs with DM do not live more than 6 months after their diagnosis?

On average, survival for cats with HCM and heart failure is 12 to 18 months after diagnosis.

«Boone is doing well now seven months after his diagnosis,» said Dr. Kent.

On average, dogs that have been diagnosed with stomach cancer live less than six months after diagnosis.

In 2005, Milo was diagnosed with kidney disease and had her first kidney transplant one month after her diagnosis.

Most dogs only survive weeks to a few months after diagnosis.

Dogs who don't receive treatment generally live about three months after diagnosis, according to Drs. Stephen J. Withrow and David M. Vail, authors of «Withrow and MacEwen's Small Animal Clinical Oncology.»

These, and a myriad of other legal tasks, all take time and will need to be completed within the first 12 - 18 months after your diagnosis.

By the time the referral was made Mr T's cancer was incurable and sadly he died eight months after his diagnosis.

The decreased use of maladaptive coping strategies among BSA patients in the first few months after diagnosis requires investigation, the aim being to reduce the associated distress earlier along the cancer trajectory.

In contrast to findings obtained 2 months after diagnosis, coping style was not related to marital adjustment at follow - up.

Lynnda M. Dahlquist, Danita I. Czyzewski, Cheri L. Jones; Parents of Children with Cancer: A Longitudinal Study of Emotional Distress, Coping Style, and Marital Adjustment Two and Twenty Months After Diagnosis, Journal of Pediatric Psychology, Volume 21, Issue 4, 1 August 1996, Pages 541 — 554, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/21.4.541

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His announcement comes five months after he announced his diagnosis and set off investor concern.

After months of lab tests and doctors and «here, try this medicine and see if it works,» I still had no diagnosis.

Thankfully, just a few months after my celiac diagnosis and transition to cooking & eating gluten - free, my local gluten - free store brought in Rachel aka Gluten Free Mama for a baking class.

Most dogs don't make it past six months after an osteosarcoma diagnosis, but Lucy's held it off for two years and four months.

Simply returning to the field just months after this potentially life - threatening diagnosis would have been an incredible achievement, but Berry quickly re-established himself as one of the premier safeties in football.

After her diagnosis, she has now gained 7 pounds in the last 6 months.

A month after he got his grim diagnosis, a group of firefighters from one of his old houses, Engine 48 / Ladder 56 in the Bronx, traveled to his home in Valley Cottage, Rockland County to spruce up his yard as he underwent chemotherapy.

Findings from the study show that the overall household income 12 months before FTD diagnosis ranged from $ 75,000 to $ 99,000, but declined after diagnosis from $ 50,000 to $ 59,999.

Many sufferers die within a few months of diagnosis, and just six in every 100 patients with the condition are alive after five years.

After multiple emergency room visits and months of uncertainty, Adelynne was admitted to Seattle Children's where she met Suskind and was given a diagnosis: Crohn's.

Six months after their child's diagnosis, 20 percent of families reported food insecurity, 17 percent reported energy insecurity, and 8 percent reported housing insecurity.

The study used surveys to explore the initiation and continuation of prescribed hormonal therapy, reaching 712 women 9 months after a breast cancer diagnosis and then again 4 years later (this maintenance therapy generally lasts 5 - 10 years).

The researchers found out that 35 % of those with Alzheimer's disease and 34 % of those without used a prescription analgesic in the first six months after the disease diagnosis.

Deploying a point - of - care test for infant diagnosis of HIV using a portable, battery - operated device may result in more timely initiation of drug therapy, decreasing the number of children who are diagnosed with HIV weeks or months after birth and never receive treatment.

The team also looked at a phenomenon called post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, characterized by a constellation of symptoms, such as fatigue, generalized musculoskeletal pain and cognitive slowing, that can occur six months after an initial diagnosis of Lyme.

Three months after the injury, 21.2 percent of head - injured and 16.3 percent of nonhead - injured patients met the diagnosis of PCS; 8.8 percent of head - injured patients met the criteria for PTSD compared with 2.2 percent of control patients.

Once validated, the tasks were given to one patient (Patient 23 in Table 1 and Figure 1), who had received a diagnosis of being in a permanent vegetative state 17 months after a traffic accident; this diagnosis was confirmed by a month - long specialized assessment 3.5 years after the injury.

After a median follow - up of 42 months from diagnosis, the 3 - year PFS rate was 66 %, and overall survival was 89 %.

Glioblastoma is the most common and the most aggressive form of brain cancer in adults, with average survival after diagnosis of around 15 months.

«Not only are African American women at twice the risk, but in this study we found they also took twice as long to recover, they were twice as likely to worsen before getting better after diagnosis, and they were twice as likely to fail to recover altogether, meaning their heart failure persisted for months following delivery,» said senior author Zoltan Arany, MD, PhD, an associate professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and director of the Cardiovascular Metabolism Program.