Sentences with phrase «survival in»
«Drug combination improves progression - free survival in melanoma patients.»
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Head and neck cancers 10 - year survival in England is generally similar in men and women (2009 - 13), though the size of the sex difference varies by subtype.
Millions of ginkgos line city streets, the ultimate symbol of survival in the face of global change.
They say their findings give valuable insights into how plants adapt to ensure survival in less favourable conditions.
Head and neck cancers survival in England is generally higher for people diagnosed aged 15 - 49 compared with other age groups, though the association with age varies by subtype.
Rosengrave P, Montgomerie R, Gemmell N. Cryptic female choice enhances fertilization success and embryo survival in chinook salmon.
Dr James Larkin, a Consultant Medical Oncologist at The Royal Marsden, London, UK, told the 2015 European Cancer Congress [1], that results from the CheckMate 067 phase III clinical trial had already shown that the combination of the two drugs, which target two different pathways that regulate the immune system, improved the progression - free survival in patients with melanoma who had not received any other treatment.
The immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab, when combined with chemotherapy, doubles survival in patients with non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSNSCLC) lacking genetic changes in the EGFR or ALK genes, when compared to...
Research published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology indicates that adding trastuzumab to carboplatin - paclitaxel chemotherapy (CT) increased progression - free survival in patients with advanced or recurrent uterine serous carcinoma who overexpressed HER2 / neu.
Small molecule MYC inhibitor conjugated to integrin - targeted nanoparticles extends survival in a mouse model of disseminated multiple myeloma.
«More studies are needed to uncover the exact mechanisms involved, but we predict that direct treatment with D4A could prolong survival in some patients with metastatic prostate cancer,» said Dr. Sharifi, «Further studies will also help us develop a potential biomarker profile to predict which patients will respond to D4 — abiraterone.»
This is an extraordinary success story, but we should not be complacent — some regions of China have not performed as well as others, and the next step is to use lessons from the most successful regions to intensify efforts to improve child survival in the regions with the poorest child survival.»
«The novel use of plastics in the nests of bees could reflect the ecologically adaptive traits necessary for survival in an increasingly human - dominated environment,» MacIvor said.
Corita R. Grudzen, M.D., M.S.H.S., of New York University, and coauthors conducted a randomized clinical trial to compare quality of life, depression, health care utilization and survival in ED patients with advanced cancer randomly assigned to an intervention with an ED - initiated palliative care consultation vs. usual care.
Dr. Stephenson said it was too soon to evaluate the effect of newborn screening or newly available protein modulator therapies on survival; however, she anticipates these will contribute to improved survival in the years to come.
The study is part of a larger field of research on the importance of social networks for health and survival in primates and other animals, including humans.
For example, placing lab animals on a meager diet that replicates food scarcity in the wild extends survival in many species.
The compound also boosted survival in this strain and another variety of lupus - mimicking mice.
This parasite is not harmful to humans; however, it can harm the butterflies by inhibiting normal growth and lowering butterfly survival in the wild.
The median progression - free survival in these patients was 10 months.
Malnutrition and lung infections are associated with increased risk of death in people with cystic fibrosis, so better nutrition and minimizing hospitalizations due to infections are important to further improve survival in CF.
Published Aug. 25 in the online journal PLOS ONE, the study explores options for mitigating the impact of human encroachment on five predators who cling to survival in isolated pockets of protected forest surrounded by a mosaic of roadways, unprotected forest, plantations and pastures.
Will we be tampering with the diversity that has been the mainstay of human survival in the past?
Burrell mentioning that those with a strong sense of purpose had a better chance of survival in concentration camps reminded...
In turn, the injury in the heart muscle after a heart attack develops a progressive signal that triggers structural pathology and complications in the kidneys, which can affect survival in heart attack patients.
«Combination immunotherapy improves survival in mouse models of mesothelioma: Mass..
NRG Oncology's validated nomogram for prediction of survival in oropharyngeal cancer can be found on the NRG Oncology website under the Resources tab.
Progress in prevention and early detection, and the use of chemotherapy after surgery (adjuvant chemotherapy), have achieved significantly increase survival in this disease in the last ten years, but much remains to be done.
Researchers studied survival in 1,715 patients with glioblastoma who died in 2006, 1,924 who died in 2008 and 1,968 who died in 2010.
«This study provides the strongest evidence to date that bevacizumab therapy improves survival in patients with glioblastoma.»
«Our study found that, at the population level, treatment strategies involving bevacizumab prolonged survival in patients with progressive glioblastoma.»
This combination should be considered for patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, which is still treatable disease, and could potentially improve survival in this patient population.»
The researchers then looked at emotion and survival in greater detail, examining data for the most buoyant optimists, the most despondent individuals, and patients with complicating factors like smoking.
The mechanisms underlying this ability and the extent to which the cells» size, growth rate and other physiological properties relate to survival in mycobacterial populations were not well understood.
Combined treatment with two cancer immunotherapy drugs — one a novel immune modulator and one that focuses and activates the antitumor immune response — significantly prolonged survival in mouse models of the aggressive cancer malignant mesothelioma.
The genes that promote that parental sacrifice are rewarded by survival in the offspring.
«Antacids linked to better survival in head and neck cancer.»
The combination was significantly toxic to pancreatic cancer cells and disrupted tumor growth and extended survival in several types of advanced pancreatic cancer mouse models.
THE STUDY «Emotional Well - Being Does Not Predict Survival in Head and Neck Cancer Patients» by James Coyne et al., published in the December 1, 2007, issue of Cancer.
The major threats to its survival in the wild are habitat loss, invasive animals like pigs and rats, and diseases.
«Tigers cling to survival in Sumatra's increasingly fragmented forests.»
These movements are critical to survival in this region of long, cold winters and hot, dry summers.
«But I want to see if they have correspondingly less autoimmunity and how that influences their survival in a world without pathogens.»
«We are not precisely sure why methylnaltrexone was associated with fewer reports of tumor progression and longer survival in our patients,» Janku said.
A study by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) found that brachytherapy treatment was associated with better cause - specific survival and overall survival in women with cervical cancer.
«We have the initial impression that monotherapy with favipiravir could improve survival in the group with less advanced disease,» Malvy said, noting that the trial is ongoing.
«This makes it far less likely that improved bowel function is the only explanation for our finding of improved survival in cancer patients,» said study co-author Filip Janku, MD, PhD, assistant professor of investigational cancer therapeutics at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
Burrell mentioning that those with a strong sense of purpose had a better chance of survival in concentration camps reminded me of an article on Arctic winter stays in the 16th and 17th centuries (3 April 1993, p 38).
The prevailing theory of the evolution of aging holds that aging is a side effect of genes that promote growth and development of organisms that have a low likelihood of continued survival in the wild once they have reproduced.
Similarly, Japan identified technologies critical to its future survival in a White Paper in 1991.