Sentences with phrase «than other cancer patients»

If your surgeon wants to «debulk» your colon and / or stomach of cancer cells and tumors, keep this in mind: Colon cancer and stomach cancer patients have a lower cure rate than other cancer patients precisely because surgery and chemotherapy damage the ability of their stomach and colon to properly digest foods.

As a side note, if your surgeon wants to «debulk» your colon and / or stomach of cancer cells and tumors, keep this in mind: colon cancer and stomach cancer patients have a lower cure rate than other cancer patients precisely because surgery and chemotherapy damages the ability of their stomach and colon to properly digest foods.

Not exact matches

Patients who exercised more than others had a lower readmission risks following cancer surgery.

One setback for these therapies which use the body's immune system to fight cancers is that they are, at times, more effective in certain patient pools than others.

And using cells from someone other than the cancer patient being treated might trigger an immune response against the foreign cells.

That study showed how a similar model can be used to understand immune response in patients with pancreatic cancer who survive longer than others.

«First mathematical model that predicts immunotherapy success: Researchers also helped craft similar model to predict why some pancreatic cancer patients survive longer than others.»

About 52 percent (34 of 66) of patients had personality - related problems, although sometimes without a formal diagnosis and more than a majority of patients had at least one coexisting illness, including cancer, cardiac disease, diabetes, stroke and others.

But success could leave a lasting mark on cancer care, by helping hundreds of thousands of patients every year, far more than other genetically targeted therapies.

Even more than other types of cancer, melanoma is a disease of aging, with older patients more frequently diagnosed with the disease and having a worse prognosis.

Many patients with low - risk prostate cancer have a lower risk of dying from prostate cancer than from other causes.»

The study evaluated 56 patients with ovarian clear cell adenocarcinoma (CCA), an aggressive form of ovarian cancer that is more likely to be resistant to chemotherapy and to have a poorer prognosis than other forms of this disease.

The prognosis for HER2 - positive breast cancer patients is worse than for those with other subtypes of the illness.

The research team with international collaborators analysed more than 100 patient samples from ovarian and other cancer types to discover a distinct population of cells found in some tumours.

Results reveal that on average, the 13 states allowing the use of medical marijuana had a 24.8 percent lower annual opioid overdose mortality rate after the laws were enacted than states without the laws, indicating that the alternative treatment may be safer for patients suffering from chronic pain related to cancer and other conditions.

The second question is more difficult to answer than it might seem because the low prevalence of cancer and diabetes in Laron patients is counterbalanced by an abnormally high risk of death from other causes, especially accidents, alcohol, and convulsive disorders.

More than half of patients had at least one type of HPV DNA detectable in their oral rinses, including HPV16, the viral type most commonly associated with oral and other cancers.

Zeroing in on this kinase was encouraging, Goga said, because other researchers have shown that genetic - knockout mice that lack the entire family of PIM kinases are slightly smaller than normal mice, but «basically fine,» indicating that a drug targeting just PIM1 may have manageable levels of toxicity in breast cancer patients.

Questions to Ask Studies show that cancer (and other) patients who arm themselves with information typically fare better and experience fewer side effects than those who simply follow doctors» orders, no questions asked.

Chronically - ill cancer patients have different exercise limitations than their healthy counterparts and other concurrent diseases and high symptom burden add challenges in how best to study and implement physical activity programs in lung cancer patients.

Patients were stratified by number of brain metastases (1 vs. 2 - 3), primary cancer type (melanoma vs. other histology) and pre-operative tumor size (less than vs. greater than three centimeters).

«While there is understandable excitement around new therapies that enlist the immune system to fight cancer, we are still in a situation where greater than half of patients don't respond in melanoma and the response rate is even worse in other cancer types,» Hanks said.

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered why breast cancer patients with dense breasts are more likely than others to develop aggressive tumors that spread.

The study drilled down in particular on patients who had a high risk of dying from a cause other than prostate cancer within 10 years.

«Americans with cancer pay 50 percent to 100 percent more for the same patented drug than patients in other countries,» says S. Vincent Rajkumar, M.D., of Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, who is one of the aucancer pay 50 percent to 100 percent more for the same patented drug than patients in other countries,» says S. Vincent Rajkumar, M.D., of Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, who is one of the auCancer Center, who is one of the authors.

Additionally, the prognosis for patients with TNBC is usually poorer than for those with other types of breast cancers.

The researchers also analyzed the effects of methylnaltrexone on another 135 patients from the same trials who had advanced illnesses other than cancer, such as congestive heart failure, advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or neurologic diseases.

Mass General geneticist Dora Dias - Santagata explains that she and other pathologists at the hospital's Translational Research Laboratory examine patients» tumors for more than 150 cancer - inducing mutations.

In other words, those likely cured through aggressive treatment were followed more closely than patients whose cancers were left untreated.»

The patients selected from the Netherlands Cancer Registry had no metastases (spread of the cancer to organs other than the lymph nodes close to the tuCancer Registry had no metastases (spread of the cancer to organs other than the lymph nodes close to the tucancer to organs other than the lymph nodes close to the tumour).

Patients with a prior (within five years) or synchronous malignancy other than nonmelanoma skin cancer were excluded.

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In the era of personalized cancer therapy, patients with TNBC remain at considerably higher risk of relapse and death than patients with other breast cancer subtypes, due to the aggressive nature of TNBC and the lack of newer targeted therapies for the disease.

«The fact that we found greater cost savings for cancer patients with more comorbidities than for those with fewer comorbidities raises the question of whether similar results would be observed in patients with other serious illnesses and multimorbidity,» said Professor Peter May of Trinity College Dublin and a former visiting research fellow in the Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and co-author of the study.

For example, breast cancer patients with higher vitamin D levels have fewer hot flashes and other symptoms than women with lower levels.

«The prolongation in survival seen in the prostate cancer patients participating in Dr. Sweeney's study is very impressive, dramatically longer than the typical 2 - 6 month prolongation typically observed in successful studies of other metastatic adult solid tumors,» said Bruce E. Johnson, MD, Dana - Farber's chief clinical research officer.

Now more than ever, IASLC needs to take leadership in optimizing the global management of patients with lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies.

They sliced the data by income, race, insurance status and other factors and found that unmarried cancer patients are suffering from higher death rates than their married counterparts.

Patients with other blood cancers had response rates > 80 %, and more than half of study participants experienced complete remission (1).

Researchers have found that treating patients who have early stage non-small cell lung cancer with a type of radiotherapy called stereotactic body radiation therapy is associated with a small but increased risk of death from causes other than cancer.

However, it remains unclear whether patients with these coexisting problems fare better or worse than other people when diagnosed with colorectal cancer, so Adams will use the American Society of Preventive Oncology / Prevent Cancer Foundation / ASCO 2010 Cancer Prevention Research fellowship to answer this quecancer, so Adams will use the American Society of Preventive Oncology / Prevent Cancer Foundation / ASCO 2010 Cancer Prevention Research fellowship to answer this queCancer Foundation / ASCO 2010 Cancer Prevention Research fellowship to answer this queCancer Prevention Research fellowship to answer this question.

Melanoma is more likely than other skin cancers to spread beyond the initial tumor site to other organs, but all the patients had localized disease.

Doctors at the Abramson Cancer Center treat more cancers than those at many other cancer centers, and are available to see patients at multiple locations throughout the rCancer Center treat more cancers than those at many other cancer centers, and are available to see patients at multiple locations throughout the rcancer centers, and are available to see patients at multiple locations throughout the region.

November 23, 2015 New test may improve diagnosis and treatment of pancreatobiliary and other gastrointestinal cancers By collecting samples from the portal vein — which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to the liver — physicians can learn far more about a patient's pancreatic cancer than by relying on peripheral blood from a more easily accessed vein in the arm.

For more than 50 years, Dr. Bertino, who is also a university professor of medicine and pharmacology at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, has taken care of thousands of patients with lymphoma and other blood cancers, while also trying to unlock the mysteries of these diseases through research.

Overall, researchers showed that regardless of other risk factors, including age at diagnosis or the initial white blood cell count, patients with an MRD level of 1 percent or more on day 19 of therapy were far less likely than other young leukemia patients to be alive and cancer - free 10 years later.

Triple - negative breast cancers represent a challenge for patients and clinicians, with poorer prognosis and fewer treatment options than other breast cancer subtypes.

In one study of more than 300 autopsy reports, obese patients were 1.65 times more likely than others to have significant undiagnosed medical conditions, including bowel disease and lung cancer.

Armstrong's photo has received more than 130 comments so far, many of them from other breast cancer patients who said they also noticed unusual dimples before their diagnosis.

«But when a six - year study of more than 16,600 postmenopausal women that was part of the Women's Health Initiative found that the combination of Premarin and Provera seemed to increase the risk of breast cancer, stroke and heart disease, doctors and patients suddenly had to consider other options.»