Sentences with phrase «year survival means»

At this point, it is important to discuss what five - year survival means.

Not exact matches

First, I didn't mean to imply that we don't have information on new business survival for more than five years.

Prof Kirby said improving survival rates on patients receiving chemotherapy, which can extend life expectancies by up to three years, meant it was a «big mistake to let him out on the premise that he would be dead within three months».

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 mean survival time for this disease, which predominantly occurs in the elderly, is less than a year for patients over 65 years.

For Don Banfield, a research associate at Cornell University, survival means writing at least a half - dozen NASA proposals every year.

«If you assume these drugs might improve survival rates by just 3 percent overall or by 5 percent in witnessed cardiac arrest events, this means they could save 1,800 additional patients every year in the United States alone from out - of - hospital cardiac arrest.

«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.»

Importantly, the survival curves for these groups did not begin to diverge until year 2 or beyond after initial surgery, and continued to widen for the entire 10 - year period, which means preliminary results from the relatively small DeCOG - SLT study — with its 3 - year median follow - up [4]-- can not be relied upon to justify changing the standard of care away from CLND.

The overall five - year survival rate for ovarian cancer is 31 percent, which means that 69 percent of patients diagnosed this year will not be alive in 2016, highlighting the urgent need for a better understanding of the disease.

When breast cancer has spread, which means the patient has been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer, the five - year survival rate is 22 %.

It notes: «In a study of 331 very old patients, mean (SD) age 85 (7) years, low BMI, low diastolic blood pressure, low total and HDL cholesterol and high insulin sensitivity predicted total mortality, indicating a «reverse metabolic syndrome» that is probably attributable to malnutrition and / or chronic disorders which have a negative impact on survival [1].»

I don't mean to imply survival games disappeared entirely; but there's a clear disparity in output from the first three years of the Xbox 360 and PS3 from 2006 and the following three from 2009.

This means that its 30 - year survival is a coin toss.

The average survival time for a dog with Cushing's disease is about two years, but this statistic does not mean that Cushing's causes death.

The typical age of onset in the BMD is 6.5 years, and the progression of disease is usually rapid, with a mean survival time following diagnosis of only 49 days (Abadie et al., J.Hered, 2009).

Over the years, animals have provided us with more than just our means for survival; they have had a role in our agriculture, transportation, religious and philosophical inspiration, and at home, have been our loving companions.

Using new recruitment and natural survival estimates (Tables 3, 4), the 10 - year mean un-harvested geometric population growth rate is 0.98 ± 0.001 (Peacock 2009; see Research in Canada, this volume).

Unfortunately, several bad years for ringed seal pup survival caused by shallow snow depth in spring means that in subsequent years, fewer seal pups will be produced for polar bears to eat — polar bears end up suffering after a bit of a lag.

This means that if you buy a policy of say 18 years, the survival benefits may be paid to you every three years starting from the sixth year to the fifteenth.

This means that the policyholder will receive a survival benefit in the fifth, tenth and fifteenth years of the policy period and the rest on maturity at the end of 20 years.