Sentences with phrase «population of lung cancer patients»

For now, the current study shows that a significant population of lung cancer patients with HER2 mutations exists.

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Key findings in this study show that 5 - year survival for older lung cancer surgery patients is favorable; surgeons will be able to better individualize care for older lung cancer patients based on newly and uniquely linked data, and the prevalence of lung cancer is expected to increase as the population continues to age.

«This greater than expected survival in older patients selected for operative therapy is noteworthy,» said Dr. Fernandez, «especially considering that the prevalence of lung cancer is expected to increase as the population continues to grow older and more people survive into old age.»

Commenting on the findings, Prof Robert Pirker, programme director for lung cancer at the Vienna General Hospital in Vienna, Austria, not involved in the study, said: «This subgroup analysis shows that the effect of necitumumab was slightly greater in patients with EGFR expressing tumours than it was in the entire SQUIRE population.

«As the population of the United States ages, there will be a higher number of lung cancer patients with comorbidities at diagnosis.»

By identifying a significant population of HER2 + lung cancer patients, the current study demonstrates the need for these therapies.

Assuming that the findings of the review reflected a causal relation between smoking cessation and risk of all cause mortality, we further investigated the data by constructing life tables for a hypothetical group of 100 patients aged 65 years with early stage lung cancer to estimate how many deaths would be prevented by smoking cessation within the non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer populations during five years.