Sentences with phrase «percent cure cancer»

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Ninety percent of the money came in, reports its former general manager, from people who wanted «the cancer - curing Double Helix water, the right - wing conspiracy film Zeitgeist, and the writings of David Icke, which promote the theory that reptilian shapeshifters control our world.»

Seventy five percent (75 %) of the net dollars raised through local events, including the annual Race for the Cure ®, stay in Broward, Miami - Dade and Monroe Counties to fund breast cancer screening, education and treatment initiatives.

Whereas ideas about prevention and treatment may vary from doctor to doctor, early detection is the key to successful treatment — when detected early enough, any cancer has a 90 percent cure rate.

«Up to 50 percent of women with advanced - stage ovarian cancer could be cured with one treatment model, expert argues.»

«AML is a disease in which fewer than 30 percent of patients are cured,» said co-senior author Ulrich Steidl, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of cell biology and of medicine and the Diane and Arthur B. Belfer Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research at Einstein and associate chair for translational research in oncology at Montefiore.

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.

Although SCT cures cancer in 50 percent of the patients, 25 percent die from relapsed cancer and there remaining go into remission but later succumb to effects of GVHD.

While chemotherapy prior to surgery can eradicate TNBC in approximately 30 percent of patients, in other patients the cancer behaves in a manner resistant to chemotherapy and often spreads or metastasizes to distant sites in the body, at which point there is no proven cure.

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

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

Lead study author Dr. Daniel Lacorazza noted that «acute lymphoblastic leukemia is a type of cancer of the white blood cells common in children... there is about an 80 percent cure rate, but some children don't respond to treatment.

This year, Komen has set a goal to reduce breast cancer deaths by 50 percent in 10 years by, among other things, enhancing their focus on research to cure these forms of breast cancer and metastatic disease.