Sentences with phrase «year survival after»

One - year survival after diagnosis is only 20 percent.

Researchers compared 10 - year survival after being listed for transplant using two opposing strategies: waiting for a donor heart to which the candidate does not have antibodies or taking the first suitable offer, regardless of potential problems that antibodies may pose.

Not exact matches

Embattled Noble has been negotiating a $ 3.4 billion debt - for - equity swap — crucial to its survival — after selling billions of dollars of assets, taking hefty writedowns and cutting hundreds of jobs over the past three years.

After the sweeping Republican election victory on Nov. 9, 2016, transgender people «are concerned for their safety, survival and legal rights in the coming years,» said Chase Strangio, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union who often works on transgender issues.

After spending 10 years behind the camera watching survivalist Bear Grylls overcome challenging conditions and teach crucial survival skills on shows like «Man vs. Wild» and «Running Wild with Bear Grylls,» Paul Mungeam, who goes by «Mungo,» has learned how to stay alive in the wilderness.

Accountability should be judged on tangible industrial measures like start - up tech company survival rates after three and five years, number of new products and services brought to market annually by companies that IRAP supported, and overall ROI after three or five years.

If death were always preceded, however, as unfortunately on rare occasions it sometimes is, by a period of slow decay, as long in years as the original period of growth to physical maturity, until any kind of personal communion had been rendered virtually impossible, then we would not only welcome death, as a merciful release, but be less inclined to assume the survival of the deceased in an «after - life».

Strong Survival After 25 years as a meat processor in Chicago, Sam's Meat plans to continue to grow in the market and deliver to customers exactly what they need.

Garnett got hurt the next year and after that it was about survival.

Impact went out of business after seven years because Monica and his small team lacked the marketing and business acumen to ensure long - term survival.

With arsenal still just taking the first few steps on the road to recovery after suffering the worst period the team has had to endure for many a year and setting a few unwanted records for the Arsene Wenger era, we could probably have done without this midweek game against a side that is not only the reigning Premier League champions but who are quite a bit further down their own road to redemption while still needing some points to make their survival in the top flight completely secure.

After narrowly avoiding the drop last year, long term manager Asier Garitano has pushed his side on with survival is all but assured already this season making the Copa del Rey the main priority.

As if the final - day victory over West Ham that not only ensured Newcastle's survival but also cemented a higher finish than Sunderland wasn't sweet enough, it also sealed the sacking of Sam Allardyce, still a hugely unpopular figure on Tyneside seven years after leaving the club.

After submitting a 150 - 200 word essay about why you deserve to be America's Detergent Diva, photos of your crazy laundry room clutter, and the entry form (available online), five semi-finalists will win a year's supply of OxiClean laundry products, and one will win a laundry room makeover from The Container Store, a five - year supply of OxiClean laundry products, a new washer and dryer, and laundry - survival tips from OxiClean's experts.

It never made sense to me that after thousands and thousands of years of human history and survival that all of a sudden in the last 100 years, childbirth is «too dangerous» and «too painful» to do naturally.

When jaundice mounts, and liver failure is likely, a liver transplant may offer hope, for the five - year survival rate after this operation with the use of cyclosporine has been reported to be better than 60 percent.

Believe it or not, this is a HUGE improvement over the survival statistics of just a few years ago — when only 1 - 2 % could expect to be alive five years after diagnosis.

Adoption agencies also required us to wait that long, since survival rates go up after five years of being disease - free.

The figures show cancer patients now enjoy a 46.2 per cent survival rate ten years after diagnosis, an increase from 23.6 per cent 30 years ago.

Although some scientists presumed the larger number of very old people in later years was due simply to a larger population base, the new data show the main cause is actually increased survival after age 70.

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).

Strikingly, the treatment approach didn't make a difference to 10 - year survival: Ninety - nine percent of the more than 1600 men in the trial were alive after a decade, whether they had initially received radical surgery, radiation, or active monitoring, which meant no immediate therapy, but intervention as needed.

In a clinical trial published in June, melanoma patients who received ipilimumab combined with chemotherapy gained a precious extra few months» survival compared with those who received chemo alone, and the treatment nearly doubled the number of patients still living after three years.

Patients aged 65 years and older are living longer after lung cancer surgery, and with older people representing a rapidly growing proportion of patients diagnosed with lung cancer, this improved survival is especially significant, according to an article posted online today by The Annals of Thoracic Surgery..

Additionally, MS progression - free survival was 46 percent at five years after AHSCT, with younger age, a relapsing form of MS, use of fewer prior immunotherapies and lower neurological disability scores associated with better outcomes, according to the report.

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.

Glioblastoma is a disease so resistant to conventional treatment that the grim statistics — 5 percent survival two years after diagnosis — have not budged in 40 years.

At 10 years after transplantation, the organs from donors with unacceptable / high risk provided each recipient with more than 7 additional years of survival on average.

Organ and patient survival rates were not different at one and three years after transplantation between the three groups.

Eight years after we started teaching the ethics course, Chris tossed a flier across my desk, «Teaching Survival Skills and Ethics.»

After a median follow up exceeding 16 years, researchers found that overall, survival did not differ between the two groups of men.

Survival was assessed at two time points: within the first 12 months after the initial assessment of vaccination status and until five years of age.

Five years after surgery, 140 patients were still alive, with an absolute five - year survival rate of 39 %.

After one year, survival rates and neurobehavioral function (including measures of motor function, communication, social skills and daily living tasks) were similar among children from both treatment groups.

The Darwin Initiative for the Survival of Species, John Major's contribution to last year's Earth Summit, now has a logo, # 1 million to spend in the next nine months and, after a delay caused by May's reshuffle of environment ministers, guidelines on what kind of projects the initiative will support.

The survival rates are poor: around 15 out of 100 women will survive advanced breast cancer for 5 years or more after diagnosis.

Hospitalized heart failure patients in all age groups within the study and with all levels of ejection fraction had significantly lower rates of survival after five years and a higher risk of re-hospitalization than people in the United States without heart failure.

Their findings reveal urgently needed new targets to treat pancreatic cancer, which strikes nearly 50,000 people in the U.S. each year and has only a 5 percent survival rate five years after diagnosis.

They monitored the birds after their release, tracking their survival and breeding success, as well as collecting the same data on 36 - 110 breeding pairs per year in the original national park population.

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.

In a phase I clinical trial, overall survival one year after treatment was 81 percent.

Specifically, the study ostensibly showed that HIV - negative people had an 80 percent Hodgkin lymphoma survival rate five years after diagnosis, but HIV - positive people survived at a rate of only 66 percent over the same timeframe.

Breast cancer patients with a mutation in both copies of the NQO1 gene have a 20 % lower survival rate 5 years after treatment than do patients without the mutation, according to a new study of more than 2000 Finnish women.

«Ovarian cancer is a very complicated disease and survival rates are low, with only 46 % of women living beyond five years after diagnosis.

At 3 years after treatment, progression - free survival was 83 %.

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.

According to Lee, elephants exhibit the classical mammalian pattern of a decline in reproductive rate after age 49, followed by up to sixteen years of post-reproductive survival.

In one case, a patient's tumor completely disappeared and the patient has remained tumor - free for 2.5 years after the trial; going into the study she had an expected survival time of about 6 months, says physician Eilon Kirson of NovoCure.

Unfortunately, survival rates after an event such as this have continued to stagnate at a low level for many years,» explains study leader David Hörburger.

Dr. David Metz, a gastroenterologist at the University of Pennsylvania who conducted a 2005 literature review on liver transplant for neuroendocrine tumor metastases, said survival is variable: «Some recur in a year; others, a few years after surgery.»