The trials were designed (meaning they were big enough and long enough) to show only an advantage in Progression Free Survival.
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Suppose in a best case scenario that the six month delay in progression caused by Perjeta leads to a six month delay in death.
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Researchers found a 20% improvement in progression to advanced AMD with the replacement, said Emily Chew, deputy director of epidemiology and clinical application for the National Eye Institute, a branch of the National Institutes of Health.
As it turns out, the progression of melanoma in mice is very similar to the progression in humans, making this animal study more relevant for potential human applications than most.
She has found that her model is accurate in predicting cancer progression in 350 patients, including 30 still undergoing treatment.
In the progression of Alzheimer's the brain suffers a significant decrease in the production of acetylcholine.
Also, the brain begins shrinking relatively late in the progression of the disease, so MRI isn't as good at detecting the disease in its early stages when treatments are most effective.
The second thing that we learned is that we were not able to show an impact on time to disease progression in the way that we measured it, which was the time to the next progression event or two lesions in the bone.
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Some records appear unbreakable in certain sports, but the progression in ability can explain why.
This is a key element in the progression of chronic disease, and it is, by and large, preventable.
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The trial of Genentech and Biogen Idec's lymphoma drug, Rituxan, in diabetes progression could report results later this year.
The study didn't find any difference in disease progression a year after treatment between those taking lithium and the control group, researchers said.
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The government's role in this progression is up for debate.
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The trial of Genentech and Biogen Idec (nasdaq: BIIB - news - people )'s lymphoma drug, Rituxan, in diabetes progression could report results later this year.
Parkinson's pathway: A cellular network linking various regions of the brain may play an important role in the development and progression of Parkinson's disease, research published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine suggests.
The elevator up the spire is manually operated and represents its progression in feet, not floors.
Meanwhile, Todd Golub at MIT and Harvard's Broad Institute has found a group of five genes involved in prostate cancer progression.
Middle-class people used to think their lives unfolded in an orderly progression.
"We will need to recruit new people and train them, attract paramedics from other trusts and restore career progression in our ambulance service, " he said.
"I think Danny is a natural progression in how a lot of people see that number 10 jersey going in the way that he plays, " said Vickery.
My brother has a band with some friends, and a week or two ago they were rehearsing and disagreed about a chord progression in a Santana song.
European progression in front of the Anfield faithful was crucial to help salvage the season for a team without a trophy since their FA Cup triumph in 2006.
Afinitor delayed disease progression in patients with kidney cancer by a modest three months in a 416-patient trial led by Robert Motzer, an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
He speculates that it could also cut the disease's rate of progression in half, extending life by as much as a decade and being a necessary treatment for anyone at risk for the disease.
However, decreased testing rates mean that older adults are more likely than younger adults to be diagnosed later in their disease progression (i.e. more likely to be diagnosed with AIDS less than a year after diagnosis).
In clinical study, they appear to slow the progression of the dementia in some patients.
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Anyone think that they faced some discrimination in career choices and progression during their working lives?
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But Kentaro boss Peter Silverstone said the deal was a "natural progression" in line with other developments in live sports broadcasting.
There is nothing unusual in this dreadful numerical progression toward 100 percent.
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