Nowadays, the only survival being threatened is usually our egos.
Approved drugs for third-line use (meaning after two other drugs have been tried) in triple negative breast cancer only increase survival by 10% to 15%.
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And yet here, Audiard paints a magnificently raw portrait, not only of survival, but of that most precious of human qualities -- the capacity to thrive, adapt and ultimately to transcend.
Now conservationists have argued that separating wild lions from humans could be their only hope of survival.
But even if the drugs improve survival only minimally, they are likely to be approved, he says.
It causes devastating damage to the lungs and eventually a transplant is sometimes the only means of survival.
For Russia's banks, suffering from a collapsed rouble and besieged by angry depositors at home and creditors abroad, a bail-out by the state offers the only chance of survival.
The Brawn team raced as Honda last season but secured their survival only at the beginning of this month following Honda's decision to quit F1 because of the global financial crisis.
For children born with a windpipe defect or without one, and for others with defective or diseased organs, manipulating stem cells to generate healthy tissues or organs could be their only chance at survival.
And indeed, research on Silicon Valley law firms as well as on Dutch accounting firms, shows that moving employees do not only enhance the survival chances of the poaching firms but also decrease the survival probability of the firms from which they were poached.
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When her net earnings reached about 5, 000 pesos per week, she considered it was the right time for his sons to return home, since the money they were making in the United States was only useful for survival and was not enough to send additional money back home.
If the government in Moscow comes to the conclusion, during the presidency of Vladimir Putin or afterwards, that it cannot otherwise bring under control either the country's regional dukedoms or the plutocrats who rose to almost uncontrollable wealth under Boris Yeltsin's tolerant gaze, it may reckon that its only hope of survival is a chest-thumping, rally-all-Russians foreign policy.
Imagine two liver transplant programs, one whose patients experience 90% survival in the year following their transplant and the other whose patients experience only a 75% survival rate.
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Bought at the bottom of the cycle, the only variable was its survival.
Outdoor Sports Survival Season only exists in territory where it gets cold enough to freeze a beer at night.
But booksellers aren't the only retailers fighting for survival.
After crash-landing on a frozen and desolate planet, Issac will fight not only for his own survival, but for that of all mankind, against an inhospitable planet and the deadly creatures who live there.
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In 1991 Dana Gioia, a poet (and former marketing manager for General Foods), set off a fierce debate in American poetry circles with an attack on American academia for turning poetry into a smug, producer-driven lobby, concerned only with its own survival and indifferent to the fact that it had alienated a wider audience.
After a while, the police would gather the other pieces of the puzzle, the easy parts, but by then she would be beyond reach, and would not be expected to explain her decision, as had been the case years earlier, when, as the one who had lived, she was made to account not only for her own survival but also for the deaths of the other five girls.
At first, he could not speak and doctors gave him only 1% chance of survival.
However, the study could not yet confirm if the vaccine could improve survival chances, only that the patient's defence systems were activated.
Overall, the five-year survival rate is only about 5 percent.
As in late-stage colon cancer, overall median survival was extended by only a few months.
Statistics show only a 10-33% survival rate for adults whose core body temperature drops below 28degC.
Moreover, it could only have occurred because the very survival of the nation could plausibly be argued to require it.
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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"It depends on the individual, but if a big cat had escaped it only has a slim chance of survival, " he said.
The Crusaders call the move "the only realistic option to ensure the survival of the club", but Jonathan Davies says it leaves them open to criticism.
Myeloma accounts for about 2% of all cancer cases in the UK, and has poor survival rates, with only 23% of patients living for more than five years after diagnosis.
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