Sentences with phrase «stage disease compared»

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In a late - stage trial, Darzalex combined with Velcade and chemotherapy slashed patients» risk of worsening disease or death by a stunning 61 % compared with the results for Velcade and chemotherapy alone.

Comparing a new patient's information with millions of other cases, Patient Rescue might be able to predict that they are in the early stages of a disease that has not yet become symptomatic, for example.

Compared to patients with low - risk disease, those with intermediate - risk cancer (PSA > 10ng / ml or Gleason score 7 or clinical stage T2b / 2c) had a nearly four-fold higher chance of dying from prostate cancer within 15 years.

«Although there is a high risk of progression to decompensated cirrhosis and liver cancer among patients with advanced fibrosis, limiting access to people who have already progressed to late - stage disease as compared to treating earlier to prevent these liver - related complications seems counter-intuitive as a public health strategy.»

Compared to Americans of European - ancestry, African - Americans» increased hypertension prevalence contributes to a greater risk of stroke, coronary heart disease, and end - stage renal disease.

After adjusting for age, race / ethnicity, facility type, ZIP code - based income and education levels, and U.S. Census region, it was found that uninsured males were 1.51 times more likely to be diagnosed at a distant stage of disease compared with patients with private insurance.

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.

Regardless of disease stage, patients who received surgery lived an average of 57 months, compared to less than 12 months for patients who received only non-surgical treatment (such as chemotherapy or radiation therapy), and 1.4 months for patients who received no treatment at all.

Most excitingly, by comparing between individual cells, the team expect to reveal differences which could play key roles in both the early stages of life and the first stages of diseases such as cancer.

The team also compared fungi in the stool of eight healthy people and 20 people with chronic alcohol abuse and various stages of liver disease.

A multivariable analysis that included factors such as age, sex, stage, disease burden, certain mutations and prior treatment showed that obesity still improved PFS and OS compared to normal BMI patients.

Factors such as gender, smoking, asbestos exposure and disease stage did not have an effect on whether patient's disease was positive for PD - L1 expression, but researchers did find that expression of the protein was more common in non-epithelial tumours compared to epithelial tumours.

The study divided data into two segments to compare outcomes of patients treated before and after 2002, when the Pediatric End - Stage Liver Disease system (PELD) was instituted.

The benefits of using olfactory receptor neuron samples to study psychiatric disorders and patient responsiveness include their similarity to brain neurons, the relatively easy biopsy procedure, and the potential for scientists to sample and compare cells from the same patients throughout several different stages of disease.

By the late stages of the disease, the brain is visibly shrunken and the ventricles - fluid filled spaces within the brain - are very enlarged compared to the brains of people without the mutation.

In this group, patients with elevated CRP had a higher proportion of International Staging System (ISS) stage II and III disease at diagnosis compared to those with normal CRP levels.

T - VEC was compared with GM - CSF in the phase III OPTiM study in 436 stage IIIB / C and IV melanoma patients who had injectable and unresectable disease.

«Much to our surprise, the trial showed that patients receiving standard therapy compared to those receiving cetuximab with standard therapy had no difference in outcomes,» said study author Dr. Steven Alberts, a professor of oncology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minn. «It also indicates that disease in earlier stages may be different than diseases in later stages.»

In one study, detailed in the Sept. 12 issue of the journal Neurology, researchers compared the brain scans of 120 people belonging to three groups: 40 of the participants had mild cognitive impairment (MCI), a transition stage between normal aging and the more serious memory problems associated with Alzheimer's disease; 40 complained of significant memory problems but did not have MCI and 40 were healthy controls.

In the dogs with no periodontal disease, about 0.01 percent were diagnosed with endocarditis, compared to 0.15 percent of the Stage 3 periodontal disease dogs.