Sentences with phrase «time of a cancer diagnosis»

Privately insured children and those with Medicaid at the time of a cancer diagnosis experience largely similar survival trends, with slight evidence for an increased risk of cancer death in children who were uninsured at diagnosis, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.

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10 - 15 years: time for precancerous changes to develop into cervical cancer (average age of diagnosis is 50).

In fact, about 40 percent of people with cancer report unexplained weight loss at the time of diagnosis and 80 percent of advanced cancer patients deal with weight loss and muscle loss — called cachexia.

«Whether you're a St. Louis - style fan or swear by babybacks, you'll be contributing to three incredible organizations, helping to alleviate the stress of a childhood cancer diagnosis for families experiencing the toughest time of their lives,» says Radwanski.

Take the new NHS rights to see a cancer specialist within 2 weeks of diagnosis, and a maximum waiting time for general treatments of 18 weeks, with the systems of redress such as getting treated in a private hospital if the NHS trusts can't get you treated in time.

A diagnosis of breast cancer brings a complex range of emotional and practical concerns, and being unable to access necessary drugs can only cause extra anxiety at an already difficult time.

The New York Democrat said only that he and McCain spoke four or five times daily after the Republican returned to the Hill following a diagnosis of advanced brain cancer.

«At the same time, as the human ZNF217 is associated with poor survival in a variety of cancers, understanding how this protein operates in physiological conditions may help to predict cancer risk, achieve earlier diagnosis and provide novel therapeutic approaches.»

Through shortened patient examination times, higher patient throughput, and lower cost per MRI examination, EPI may become a powerful tool for early diagnosis of some common and potentially treatable diseases such as ischemic heart disease, stroke, and cancer.

What was unknown, however, was the rate that acute pancreatitis precedes a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer and the time between these two diagnoses.

Prostate cancer risk groups are assigned based on the prostate biopsy results, which include the Gleason score (GS)-- an indication of how aggressively the tumor cells may behave — and the prostate specific antigen (PSA) level in the patient's blood at the time of diagnosis.

By the time of diagnosis the majority of women with ovarian cancer already have extensive spread of the disease which makes it difficult to treat by surgery or chemotherapy.

This means that the cancer had already metastasized by the time of the first diagnosis, but it could not be detected at that time.

Using the electronic health records of patients from the Veterans Health Administration between 1998 and 2007, researchers were able to determine the likelihood that a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer follows a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis, how often pancreatic cancer is preceded by acute pancreatitis, and the time between an initial episode of acute pancreatitis and diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.

In 2011, the rate of thyroid cancer diagnosis was 15 times what it was in 1993, yet there was no change in thyroid cancer mortality, Heyong Sik Ahn of Korea University in Seoul and colleagues reported in The New England Journal of Medicine in November 2014.

Assessed patients had a range of cancer types, with the most common types being breast cancer (44 %), prostate cancer (15 %), and colorectal cancer (14 %), and the average time since cancer diagnosis was 13.5 months.

About 20 percent of colorectal cancer patients have cancers that have spread (metastasized) beyond the colon at the time of their diagnosis.

With samples taken from 242 people, 24 of whom had a cancer diagnosis, the worms made the correct diagnosis 96 per cent of the time, a success rate that the researchers say is better than any blood test.

On average, the time from prostate cancer diagnosis to initiation of treatment was seven days longer overall for African American patients compared with Caucasian patients.

To see if there is a difference in the time from cancer diagnosis to initiation of treatment for African American men compared with Caucasian men with prostate cancer, Ronald Chen, MD, MPH, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his colleagues analyzed data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)- Medicare registry, which links cancer diagnosis data to a master file of Medicare records.

The study, published in Cancer, surveyed 1,006 women who were treated for early stage breast cancer and were employed at the time of their diagCancer, surveyed 1,006 women who were treated for early stage breast cancer and were employed at the time of their diagcancer and were employed at the time of their diagnosis.

Poor prognosis was defined as metastatic disease (disease that had spread) at the time of diagnosis or death from the cancer.

Unfortunately, approximately 85 percent of cancer patients are ineligible for surgery at the time of diagnosis, either because the tumor is entwined in critical vasculature or the disease has progressed too far.

Many of its victims have metastatic disease at the time of diagnosis — their cancer has already spread.

Even after adjusting for a diagnosis of hepatitis C, which is very strongly associated with liver cancer, women with ICP were still at 2.5 - times increased risk of later liver malignancy.

People with breast cancer or lymphoma were three times as likely to develop heart failure within five years of their cancer diagnosis, and 20 years following cancer treatment were still nearly twice as likely to have been diagnosed with heart failure compared to similar patients who didn't undergo cancer therapy.

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Researchers found that only 55 percent of colorectal cancer patients who were employed at the time of diagnosis retained their jobs after treatment.

Often the carcinoma is so extensive at the time of diagnosis that even a radical removal of the cancer tissue is impossible.

Patients can be diagnosed with metastatic disease at the time of their breast cancer diagnosis or after a period of time has elapsed since their initial early breast cancer was treated.

About 80 percent of pancreatic cancers spread beyond the organ by the time of diagnosis; life expectancy for such patients is measured in months.

«This would be because the stool is liquid on the right, the lumen is wider and therefore takes a longer period of time for the mass to obstruct or cause symptomatology that leads to the diagnosis of colon cancer,» Venook noted.

The University of Melbourne Bertalli Chair in Cancer Medicine, Professor Sean Grimmond, said clinicians had limited time to decide on treatment, as the average patient survives only three to six months after diagnosis.

We reviewed 10 observational studies, all of which showed some evidence that people who continue to smoke after a diagnosis of early stage lung cancer have an associated higher risk of recurrence, second primary tumour, or all cause mortality compared with those who stop smoking at that time.

The fact that the risk elevation was apparent directly after cancer diagnosis, and decreased in magnitude over time, supports the conclusion that the risk increase may be traced to the diagnosis itself rather than the emotional or physical suffering related to progression of the cancer or to its treatment.

Similarly, the risk of cardiovascular death was six times higher during the first week and three times higher during the first month, after a cancer diagnosis, compared to people without cancer.

That is still a problem in this country even though we have some techniques, not perfect ones, but some techniques to help identify these cancers early, but at the same time as we still have under diagnosis we have this new problem, which is exploding at the same time of over diagnosis.

That reasoning fit a time when hysteria was recognized as an emotional disorder specific to women, and when physicians delivered news of a cancer diagnosis to the husbands or fathers of their female patients.

In a survey of more than 1,300 patients with stage 3 colorectal cancer, researchers found that only 55 % who were employed at the time of diagnosis retained their jobs after treatment.

I'm sure every cancer survivor feels this way, but my diagnosis, in 1997, of stage III germ cell testicular cancer couldn't have come at a worse time in my life.

The FDA approval comes after the release of a recent multi-site study that reported that in 93.4 % of cases the test was able to align with the study site's final diagnosis and additionally was able to detect cancer 84.2 % of the time.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide, suffering from a late stage of disease at the time of diagnosis and a paucity of effective therapeutic strategies to treat advanced tumours.

Factors examined as potential confounders or effect modifiers included age (at breast cancer diagnosis for cases, at time of study enrollment for controls), age at first birth, number of children, birth of a son, history of breastfeeding, miscarriage, abortion, oral contraceptive use, smoking status, age at menarche and number of cell equivalents tested for detection of FMc.

TUESDAY, Feb. 2, 2010 (Health.com)-- The first few months after a prostate cancer diagnosis may be an especially perilous time for men, but not because of the cancer, new research suggests.

Song Yao, an associate professor at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., led a study to determine Vitamin D levels at the time of diagnosis with breast cancer surCancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., led a study to determine Vitamin D levels at the time of diagnosis with breast cancer surcancer survival.

Writing «After the Jolt» has given me the chance to express my experiences in greater detail and to share the knowledge and insights that I have gained since the time of my diagnosis and from all those thousands of cancer stories and questions I have fielded over the past 5 plus years.

Women with the most common forms of breast cancer who are overweight or obese at the time of diagnosis have significantly higher risk of breast cancer recurrence and death.

The book focuses on the time of his mother's cancer diagnosis to her death from a very a difficult disease.

The family faced with the diagnosis of cancer in a child dies many times in spirit; at diagnosis, at relapse, at the time when they realize that their child will not be one of the lucky survivors, and at the time of the child's death.

Diagnosis of mammary cancer is sometimes achievable through a non-surgical technique known as fine needle aspirate of a mass, which offers a diagnosis about 68 % of Diagnosis of mammary cancer is sometimes achievable through a non-surgical technique known as fine needle aspirate of a mass, which offers a diagnosis about 68 % of diagnosis about 68 % of the time.