Sentences with phrase «year survival difference»

They found the absolute 5 - year survival difference between black and white CRC patients in the entire cohort was 9.2 % (57.3 % vs 66.5 %).

Not exact matches

But looking at survival rates of new companies back to 1977, we didn't really see any difference between recessionary and expansionary years.

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.

(The one - year trial was too short and small to detect any difference in long - term patient survival.)

LDLT versus DDLT had similar incidents of overall postoperative complications (31 % versus 43 %), and no differences were detected between LDLT and DDLT patients regarding 1 -, 3 -, and 5 - year liver and patient survival rates.

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.

In a comparison of mechanical prosthetic vs bioprosthetic mitral valves among patients 50 to 69 years of age undergoing mitral valve replacement, there was no significant difference in survival at 15 years, although there were differences in risk of reoperation, bleeding and stroke, according to a study in the April 14 issue of JAMA.

The distinction between these two pathways may help to explain the difference between outcomes for younger and older patients — PA in younger patients is more likely to be caused by K: B fusion and 5 - year survival is generally high; PA in older patients is more likely to be caused by BRAF point mutations and 5 - year survival is generally lower.

The survival difference increased dramatically in 2005 which coincided with the year that the United States began using a lung allocation score to prioritize people on the lung transplant waiting list.

«Though seemingly small, a confirmed overall difference of 3 percentage points in survival with drug therapy would mean that 1,800 additional lives could be saved each year in North America alone after out - of - hospital cardiac arrest.»

Head and neck cancers 10 - year survival in England is generally similar in men and women (2009 - 13), though the size of the sex difference varies by subtype.

Dr. Preti and his collaborators are exploiting this difference to detect the odor signature of ovarian cancer from blood samples, with the aim of creating a sensor that can identify the cancer at early treatable stages and improve survival rates for this silent killer, which leads to the death of over 14,000 American women every year.

An estimated 10,380 U.S. children younger than 15 years of age are diagnosed with cancer each year, and, although survival rates have increased, differences have been reported based on cancer type and race / ethnicity.

Overall, CPL's a miraculous story of survival while the Celtic Tiger was being slaughtered... Of course, management owns a substantial stake — this really makes all the difference when things go wrong, as protecting & growing the ultimate value of the business is far more important to them than the value of their pay packages.The company did suffer two years of decline (2009 - 10), but revenues have come surging back ever since, and in 2012 they surpassed prior (2008) peak revenues.

The difference between us and our pets is that our pets can't outright tell us that they're in pain - often, the exact opposite is true - they hide all signs of pain as a survival mechanism they developed over thousands of years of evolution to keep weakness hidden from predators and other members of their own colonies, Your pet may tell you in different ways when they are uncomfortable, such as by whining or whimpering, staying too still and showing little interest in what's going on around them, sleeping more than usual, becoming aggressive or intolerant of petting or exercise or even by becoming more active - pacing, circling, wandering - as the pain is too much for them to sit still and rest.

Compare that to the anti-terrestrial food USGS press release issued last year, with biologist Karen Rode as lead author (but co-authored by former USGS employee Steve Amstrup) that hit back hard on claims that land - based foods make a survival difference (see previous post here)[my bold]:

One only has to look at the courageous examples out there — the man who single - handedly saved a species of snail, or the man that courted a rare whooping crane for three years in an effort to get her to lay eggs — to see that sometimes, one person can make a huge difference in ensuring the survival of an endangered species.