Prognosis — Conventional chemotherapy results in total remission in approximately 60 - 90 % of cases
with a median survival time of 6 - 12 months.
With chemotherapy treatments, total remission is approximately 60 - 90 % of cases
with a median survival time of 6 - 12 months.
In another study, cats that presented in heart failure lived a median of 77 days whereas those without heart failure fared much better,
with a median survival of 223 days.
The incidence of MDS in children is very low, however, after chemotherapy or radiation, as many as 2 - 6 % will develop MDS,
with a median survival of only 13 months!
The therapy has greatly helped the majority of the patients, most of whom had undergone heavy treatments before and had prognoses
with a median survival time (without the TAT therapy) of 2 - 4 months.
Glioblastoma multiforme is the most common and aggressive form of brain cancer,
with a median survival of about 15 months.
The infection is virtually always fatal,
with a median survival time after the onset of symptoms of four days.
Patients have a very poor prognosis,
with median survival of just 14 to 16 months.
Not exact matches
Without resection, overall
median survival is four to six months
with an estimated five - year
survival rate of 0.4 percent to 5 percent.
Brahmer emphasizes that the relatively small increase in
median survival time
with the use of the new immunotherapy drugs may be somewhat misleading in terms of overall impact of the medicines.
Median overall
survival of patients receiving nivolumab was 9.2 months, compared
with six months for patients who received docetaxel.
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 %.
Of the dogs stricken
with osteosarcoma, 35 had the cancer in a leg which was subsequently amputated, followed by chemotherapy, which is the standard - of - care treatment; the dogs
with elevated total cholesterol had a
median survival time of 455 days, more than 200 days greater than the
median survival time for dogs
with normal cholesterol.
Patients treated
with precision medicine also benefited from longer progression - free
survival with a
median of 5.7 months before their disease worsened compared to 2.95 months for the others.
The
median survival for patients is 15 months,
with less than five per cent of patients surviving beyond five years.
Median progression - free survival for the 13 patients who had a decrease in the number of CTCs with ALK copy number gain was 14.0 months, while the median progression - free survival for the 16 patients who had stable or increased numbers of CTCs with ALK copy number gain was 6.1 m
Median progression - free
survival for the 13 patients who had a decrease in the number of CTCs
with ALK copy number gain was 14.0 months, while the
median progression - free survival for the 16 patients who had stable or increased numbers of CTCs with ALK copy number gain was 6.1 m
median progression - free
survival for the 16 patients who had stable or increased numbers of CTCs
with ALK copy number gain was 6.1 months.
With standard treatments of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, the median survival time is only 14.6 months, and improvement will only come with the ability to kill tumor cells resistant to standard treatments, according to Alfredo Quiñones - Hinojosa, M.D., a professor of neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the research t
With standard treatments of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation, the
median survival time is only 14.6 months, and improvement will only come
with the ability to kill tumor cells resistant to standard treatments, according to Alfredo Quiñones - Hinojosa, M.D., a professor of neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the research t
with the ability to kill tumor cells resistant to standard treatments, according to Alfredo Quiñones - Hinojosa, M.D., a professor of neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a member of the research team.
As reported in 2015, the study met its primary endpoint after a
median follow up of 2.3 years,
with ipilimumab significantly improving recurrence - free
survival.2 The drug was subsequently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration as adjuvant therapy for stage III melanoma.
The
median survival rate for patients
with metastatic uveal melanoma is 12 months.
Median overall
survival for patients on selumetinib was 11.8 months, compared
with 9.1 months for those on chemotherapy, but the difference was not statistically significant.
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).
However,
median progression - free
survival is statistically significant,
with the control group at about 8.6 months and the treatment group at 24.5 months — a 16 - month advantage for the ICT - 107 group.
In patients
with HLA - A2 and methylated MGMT, neither the control group nor the treatment group has reached a
median survival point to date.
Study results show that patients
with prior knowledge of MGUS had better overall
survival (
median 2.8 years) than patients
with MM who didn't know when they had MGUS (
median survival 2.1 years), although patients
with prior knowledge of their MGUS status had more coexisting illnesses.
Median progression - free
survival was significantly improved
with ceritinib compared to chemotherapy (5.4 vs 1.6 months, hazard ratio [HR] 0.49, p < 0.001).
More than half of those
with abundant F.prausnitzii had not reached
median progression - free
survival, while half of those
with low abundance had their disease progress by 242 days.
As of April 2015,
with a
median follow up of 30.1 months, the media progression free
survival was 19.1 months and the
median overall
survival had increased to 32.1 months.
The team found that patients
with more varied types of bacteria in their digestive tract had longer
median progression - free
survival, defined at the time point where half of studied patients have their disease progress.
The researchers then tested their scoring method using data on 688 AML patients in three different clinical trials, In each of these groups, patients
with low scores (methylation patterns similar to normal HSCs) had approximately twice the
median survival time of patients
with high scores.
Appearing in Lancet Oncology, long term results of EORTC trial 22921
with 10.4 years
median follow - up show that 5 - FU (fluorouracil) based adjuvant chemotherapy after preoperative (chemo)- radiotherapy for patients
with cT3 - resectable T4 M0 rectal cancer does not improve
survival or disease - free
survival.
Median overall
survival for woman in the chemotherapy plus bevacizumab treatment was 42.2 months, compared
with 37.3 for those receiving chemotherapy alone.
The researchers found that patients capable of holding their breath over the course of treatment had a 90 percent disease - free
survival, and a 96 percent overall
survival,
with a
median reduction in radiation dose to the heart of 62 percent.
The
median survival rate for patients
with glioblastoma multiforme, or GBM, is a mere 14.2 months.
For example, data from seven multi-institutional U.S. clinical trials showed patients who had no visual residual disease had a
median survival of 64 months compared
with 29 months for those
with minimal residual cancer.
Mean progression - free
survival was 3.1 months
with regorafenib and 1.5 months
with placebo, while
median overall
survival was 10.6 months for regorafenib and 7.8 months
with placebo.
Median progression - free
survival with niraparib compared to placebo was 21.0 vs 5.5 months in the germline BRCA mutation group (hazard ratio [HR] 0.27, 95 % confidence interval [CI] 0.173 to 0.410, p < 0.0001), 9.3 months vs 3.9 months in the non-germline BRCA mutation group (HR 0.45, 95 % CI 0.338 to 0.607, p < 0.0001), and 12.9 vs 3.8 months in a subgroup of the non-mutation cohort who had homologous recombination DNA repair deficiencies (HRD)(HR 0.38, 95 % CI 0.243 to 0.586, p < 0.0001).
«While the
median survival rate for patients without distant metastasis was nearly a year - and - a-half
with this treatment, there was one patient whose disease remained clinically stable for nearly three years.
With a median follow - up of 36.7 months, the researchers found no survival benefit of chemoradiotherapy compared with chemotherapy, with median overall survival from the date of the first randomization of 15.2 months and 16.5 months, respectiv
With a
median follow - up of 36.7 months, the researchers found no
survival benefit of chemoradiotherapy compared
with chemotherapy, with median overall survival from the date of the first randomization of 15.2 months and 16.5 months, respectiv
with chemotherapy,
with median overall survival from the date of the first randomization of 15.2 months and 16.5 months, respectiv
with median overall
survival from the date of the first randomization of 15.2 months and 16.5 months, respectively.
The
median disease - free
survival was 13.4 months in the treatment group compared
with 6.7 months in the observation group.
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.
At five years, 34 of the 102 patients had achieved a complete response (disappearance of their cancer for a period of time),
with an estimated 64 percent of patients surviving
with or without disease (
median five - year overall
survival was 40.5 months) and an estimated 52 percent surviving without disease progression.
In Canada, one in every 3,600 children are diagnosed
with CF.. But life expectancy rates have risen dramatically in recent decades
with the
median age of
survival now over 50 years, due to better treatments to improve lung function, better nutrition and lung transplants.
At five years, the rates for disease - free and overall
survival were 26 percent and 40 percent, respectively,
with a
median overall
survival of four years.
Among 128 of the 141 patients, the scientists found that the
median progression - free
survival of 71 patients identified
with high levels of cancer DNA in their blood was 2.1 months, compared
with 5.8 months for 57 patients
with low levels.
Women
with Stage III ovarian cancer given a combination of intravenous and intraperitoneal chemotherapy following surgical debulking of tumor had a
median survival nearly 16 months longer than women who received IV chemotherapy alone, according to a study published conducted by the Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG), a National Cancer Institute - supported research network, in the January 5, 2006 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.
Sweeney said more time is needed to assess the benefit of the drug combination in the men
with lesser burdens of disease, as their
median survival has not yet been reached.
The tumors grew rapidly in the control experiments (the
median time for tumor - free
survival was one week) and any differences in tumor - free
survival for the controls and the mice injected
with cells expressing mutated PREX2 were not statistically significant (Horrigan et al., 2017).
In the 520 patients who had high - extent disease (whose cancer had spread to major organs and / or the bones), treatment
with ADT plus docetaxel had an even greater benefit: these men had a
median overall
survival of 49.2 months versus 32.2 in the ADT - only group — a difference of 17 months.
A class of oral specialty drugs, tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs), has revolutionized the treatment of CML, largely transforming it into a chronic condition and enabling many patients to have a near - normal lifespan, particularly when compared to a
median survival of less than three years
with prior therapies.
This translated into a
median overall
survival of 57.6 months for men who received early chemotherapy compared
with 44 months in the group given ADT as the only initial treatment — more than a year of additional life.