«No long - term
survival difference found between types of mitral valve replacements.»
Not exact matches
And they
found no statistical
difference in the
survival or closure rates between male - and female - led companies.
While researchers did not
find differences in
survival rates, they did
find differences in side effects between the treatment arms at this interim analysis.
No significant
difference in overall
survival was
found between HRT and CRT but researchers noted that the possibility exists that men in excellent health could also achieve an overall
survival benefit with HRT as compared with CRT.
The
findings, described in an article published in the October issue of Annals of Surgery, offer confirmation and some insight, researchers say, for the fact that a patient's race and insurance status persistently make a
difference in
survival chances after a car crash, a gunshot wound or some other life - threatening injury treated in an emergency room.
Patients with comorbidity were
found to have poorer
survival at each stage, he said, and the
difference in
survival between patients with and without comorbidity seemed to be greater in less advanced stages.
Researchers
found significant
differences in overall
survival between those on the drug and those on the placebo in the older age group.
While there had been preliminary evidence suggesting that the addition of radiotherapy might improve outcomes, the study failed to
find any
differences in relapse - free
survival between patients treated with the additional radiotherapy, and those who were not.
«Further understanding of the mechanisms of [the improvement
found in this study] could provide novel insights for the elimination of racial
differences in
survival for other conditions,» the authors write.
However, the second study, run by the NIA,
found there was no
difference in the
survival rates of their animals, which cast doubt on the entire premise.
They
found the absolute 5 - year
survival difference between black and white CRC patients in the entire cohort was 9.2 % (57.3 % vs 66.5 %).
Snake fungal disease is just one more threat that they have to contend with, and anything we can do — to
find effective treatments, for example, or disinfectants that stop people from spreading the disease from place to place — could make a
difference for their long - term
survival.»
The researchers
found a statistically significant
difference in overall
survival between the study groups, with a median of 22.8 months in the gemcitabine group compared with 20.2 months in the observation group.
When the researchers broke the results down by age group, they
found that most of the female
survival advantage comes from
differences in infant mortality.
The study
found there was no
difference in
survival rates between U.S. patients with private health insurance compared to Canadians, who have universal, publicly funded health - care coverage.
Researchers from the universities of Oxford and Bristol
found no
difference in
survival rates among men who were randomly assigned to surgery, radiation or monitoring; it is the largest study of its kind.
These
findings for scoring expression were agreed with Gillet et al., 1996 [24], who stated in their study that, moderate / strong staining of Cyclin D1 had a longer relapse - free
survival than patients whose tumors stained weakly or negatively for Cyclin D1 with a great significant
difference (P = 0.007).
Comparison of smoking and non-smoking lung cancer patients
finds differences in clinical signs and
survival rates.
A third trial, looking at the effectiveness of cetuximab (Erbitux) in treating certain colon cancer patients,
found the drug made little
difference to their
survival.
The researchers
found a five-fold
difference in an area's
survival rates after emergency workers treated the patients — suggesting that cardiac arrest treatment could be improved in some areas.