Sentences with phrase «survival rate»

Only three in every 100 people diagnosed will live for five years or more and this survival rate has barely improved in the last 40 years.

Detecting important biomarkers in lower concentrations will allow patients to be treated earlier for diseases such as some cancers and neurological disorders, which could increase the chance of survival rate.

The foam reduced blood loss sixfold in those tests, and three hours after the injury the survival rate was 72 percent in the treatment group versus only 8 percent in the control group.

The researchers found that the 5 - year survival rate of patients in the lowest BMI category was around 76 % compared with almost 93 % for those in the highest BMI category.

The group treated with both ipilimumab and the immune stimulant, called sargramostim, had a one - year survival rate of 68.9 percent vs. 52.9 percent in the ipilimumab - only group.

Moreover, patients in complete remission six months after the allograft had a relapse - free survival rate of 60 %.

The 7 months represent a record for frozen vertebrates, and while Siberian salamanders have lived through -30 °C temperatures for shorter durations, those salamanders did not have as good a survival rate as the wood frogs.

According to the report, cancer incidence is 15 % higher among African - American men than among white, non-Hispanic men; all minority groups have higher rates of stomach cancer than white Americans; and the 5 - year cancer survival rate of Native Americans is only about two - thirds that of whites.

The interim analysis found a median progression - free survival rate of 9.7 months with consolidative radiation therapy followed by chemotherapy, versus 3.5 months for maintenance chemotherapy alone (p = 0.01; Hazard Ratio (HR) = 0.304, 95 % CI 0.113 - 0.815).

«These declining catch rates align with our survival rate estimates of green turtles exposed to the Nicaragua turtle fishery and population modelling, which suggested the fishery was not sustainable at high take levels reported in the 1990s,» said Dr. Cathi Campbell.

Banded penguins had a 16 % lower survival rate than unbanded birds over the 10 years, the researchers report online today in Nature.

The difference in survival became even greater with longer follow - up, with a five - year survival rate of 71 percent for deceased donor recipients, compared with 78 percent for living donor transplants at an experienced center.

Of the 2,103 living donor transplant and 46,674 deceased donor transplants recipients analyzed, the three - year patient survival rate for deceased donor recipients was 78 percent compared with 83 percent for living donor transplants that were performed at experienced centers.

The median survival rate for patients with metastatic uveal melanoma is 12 months.

Studies show that PD - 1 inhibitors are effective for a larger proportion of melanoma patients than ipilimumab alone — and, in combination with that drug, they achieve a two - year survival rate of 80 percent.

While killing young mites of another species doesn't help an individual adult mite survive, it increases the survival rate of their offspring.

Although treatment has improved, the surgery rate in patients with ductal adenocarcinoma is around 30 percent and the five - year survival rate is less than 20 percent.

The lower survival rate for intermediate - risk patients who were offered active surveillance suggests that these patients had lower life expectancy.

In absolute terms, the overall survival rate at five years was 11 % higher in the ipilimumab arm (65 %) than in the placebo arm (54 %).

With a three - year survival rate of 94.39 percent for all adult kidney recipients — above the 92.62 percent national average — UCSF has more patients on the kidney transplant waiting list than any other U.S. transplant center.

The ability of the mucus samples to kill the fungal disease was related to how prevalent the infections were among the frog population in the field as well as the survival rate of frogs raised in the laboratory that were exposed to the disease.

By tinkering with the medium in which cells are grown, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies created a type of stem cell with a survival rate of 30 to 40 percent, vs. 1 percent.

Pancreatic cancer has the lowest survival rate among all major cancers, largely because physicians lack diagnostic tools to detect the disease in its early, treatable stages.

Drs. Prud «homme and Wang also found that GABA vastly improved the survival rate of pancreatic cells when they were being transplanted into mice.

It is known as the UK's deadliest cancer, with a survival rate of just 3 per cent.

The malignancy often remains undiagnosed until the cancer has spread, leaving patients with a bleak prognosis and a five - year survival rate of less than 30 percent.

In addition, the study showed that the 5 - year survival rate for selected older patients with advanced lung cancer who were treated with surgical therapy was 29.9 % for Stage III and 26.7 % for Stage IV.

In examining the STS - CMS linked data, researchers found that the median survival following lung cancer surgery for pathologic Stage I (early stage) was 6.7 years, almost 2 years longer than the benchmark 5 - year survival rate.

If, however, physicians spot the disease early — before the cancer spreads to other organs — the five - year survival rate exceeds 90 percent.

According to a 2014 review of cancer medicines from the World Health Organization, EOC is the most common type of ovarian cancer and has a 5 - year survival rate of approximately 40 %.

Treatment approach (i.e., 30 - 33 vs. 15 treatments) did not significantly impact either survival rate.

While there have been improvements in the current standard treatments, patients with glioblastoma (GBM), the most common and aggressive form of brain tumor, still suffer from a median survival rate of only 14.6 months and 5 - year overall survival rates of less than 10 %.

Patients diagnosed with NSCLC have a poor prognosis, with a 5 - year survival rate of only 16 percent.

Based on the survival rate of books by Copernicus, Gingerich had expected to find twice as many volumes, but some 300 were destroyed by the publisher, he suspects, because the book's difficulty made it unpopular with its target audience: «A user familiar with the previous way of computing would no doubt freak out in the opening steps of the Rudolphine procedures,» upon seeing all the calculations Kepler had added for accuracy.

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is most frequent in children, adolescents and young adults, and it has a five - year survival rate of over 90 %.

«Our goal is to identify more patients at those earlier, resectable stages, when treatment could lead to a five year survival rate of 30 percent or more, depending on stage,» Killary said.

A clinical trial conducted by researchers at the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials, a partnership between Scottsdale Healthcare and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), showed that a new drug called MM - 398, given in combination with 5 - flourouracil (5FU) and leucovorin, produced a significant overall survival rate in patients with advanced, previously - treated pancreatic cancer.

Additionally, the median survival rate for patients who received radiosurgery was 440 days, compared to 202 days for patients who received whole - brain radiation.

Prostate cancer is highly curable, with a 94 percent 15 - year relative survival rate for early stages.

Without resection, overall median survival is four to six months with an estimated five - year survival rate of 0.4 percent to 5 percent.

Results of the trial, reported in the May 31 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine and presented at the American Society for Clinical Oncology 2015 annual meeting, also showed that after a year, the nivolumab group had nearly double the survival rate (42 percent) of the chemotherapy patients (24 percent).

Equally, however, it has been the dramatic improvement in the survival rate of infants that for the first time has freed women from the social obligation for a lifetime producing and rearing babies.

She said that in most cases, the participants had been diagnosed with stage 1 disease, when melanoma is often easily treated and has a five - year survival rate of 98 percent.

The researchers have previously shown that maintaining a temperature of 36 °C produced the same survival rate as cooling to 33 °C.

If melanoma is caught early, before cancer cells leave the skin and move to lymph nodes and the rest of the body, patients have a 91.5 percent 5 - year survival rate.

«After 40 days, 40 percent of the mice who were treated using the microneedle patch survived and had no detectable remaining melanoma — compared to a zero percent survival rate for the control groups,» says Yanqi Ye, a Ph.D. student in Gu's lab and co-lead author of the paper.

If the cancer is caught at later stages, the prognosis is much less favorable, with a 30 to 60 percent 5 - year survival rate.

Other possible explanations for the decline, which is being caused by a low survival rate of seal pups, include a change to the food supply owing to warming waters; competition for food from large fish called jacks; or the possibility that the reserve is simply too new for its ecosystem to have settled down.

Weiss latched onto the idea that microbes from the cloaca might be important after noticing that when she obtained eggs through dissection, they tended to have a lower survival rate than eggs that were laid.

Dr Rosengrave says they found that not only does a particular female's OF give a bigger boost to some male's sperm and not others, these speedier sperm have a significantly higher chance of winning the race to fertilise eggs and the resulting offspring have a better survival rate as embryos.