Sentences with phrase «year survival rates over»

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MicroMentor reports that participating businesses had a 75 percent increase in median annual business sales and an 87 percent survival rate year over year.

Because babies with the gene that allowed them to digest non-human milk had higher rates of survival over thousands of years in that harsh environment.

Approximately 175000 cancer cases are diagnosed annually in children younger than age 15 years worldwide, 1 with an annual increase of around 0.9 % in incidence rate in the developed world, only partly explained by improved diagnosis and reporting.1, 2 Childhood cancer is rare and its survival rate has increased significantly over the years owing to advancement in treatment technologies; however, it is still a leading cause of death among children and adolescents in developed countries, ranking second among children aged 1 to 14 years in the United States, surpassed only by accidents.1, 3 Childhood cancer is also emerging as a major cause of death in the last few years in Asia, Central and South America, Northwest Africa, and the Middle East, where death rates from preventable communicable diseases are declining.2

Over the last decade, the ten year survival rate increased by 11 per cent for all cancers combined, but the rates differ wildly between types of cancer.

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia is most frequent in children, adolescents and young adults, and it has a five - year survival rate of over 90 %.

Banded penguins had a 16 % lower survival rate than unbanded birds over the 10 years, the researchers report online today in Nature.

Ongoing disagreement among scientists over how to sustain high survival rates for salmon once the ocean warms up again placed the National Marine Fisheries Service in a cross fire last year.

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.

Although immunotherapy treatments that emerged in the last few years have vastly improved survival rates over previous chemotherapy treatments, metastatic MCC still has a high potential to be fatal, he says, making early detection especially vital.

They tested the women for the NQO1 * 2 mutation and compared their survival rates over an average of nearly 6 years of follow - up visits.

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.

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.

Survival rates have not improved over the past 20 years; therefore, glioblastoma is still regarded as an incurable disease, emphasizing the urgent need for novel diagnostic and therapeutic tools.

The overall survival rate for all patients fell from about 63 percent after 12 months to a little over one - third after four years, and then plateaued.

The overall 5 - year survival rate for breast cancer is now 89 % — a dramatic improvement over the early 1960s when the rate was 63 %.

Thanks to improvements in chemotherapy over the past half - century, survival rates have improved, but about 1,000 Americans still die from the disease every year, mainly from a subtype called high - risk B - ALL.

The successful treatment and survival rate of our rabbit patients has more than tripled over the last 15 years due to better informed owners who recognize disease more quickly and improved and more appropriate treatment options.

The health - protective effects of marriage extended over a 5 - year period in which the survival rate among married patients was almost twice that of their unmarried counterparts.