"New treatments for cancers are often introduced for end-stage treatment based on slim evidence, " says Dillon.
Finding cancers early saves many times that amount compared with the cost of late-stage cancer treatment, she notes.
Mr Maduro recently said the president was "battling on" and had entered a new stage of treatment, after successfully finishing the post-operative phase.
After going to the Royal Marsden Hospital in Sutton, his family were told he would need to go to Germany for the next stage of treatment.
There is also growing concern that problems such as prostate and testicular cancer are ignored by men until they are at a late stage when treatment is not as effective.
Are we really expected to believe it costs more to screen and treat women early than it does to provide late stage breast cancer treatment?
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The stage, a water treatment plant in Anbar Province near a bend in the Euphrates River.
Another camper, Kai Lam, named "Barbershop, " is undergoing treatment for stage 3 brain cancer.
The pop mogul has agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to allow two-year-old Sophie Atay, from Birtley, to receive treatment for stage 4 neuroblastoma.
Two different personalized medicines were approved for use last year, including a new treatment for late-stage breast cancer.
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The first of its two clinical-stage product candidates is a potential treatment for acute myeloid leukemia, a cancer that receives about 14, 000 new diagnoses in the U.S. annually.
First, the company quietly said it was temporarily stopping mid-stage trials of the Alzheimer's treatment, a therapeutic vaccine dubbed AN-1792, because four patients had become sick.
Professors Even and Macpherson are able to infer from these differences in treatment that the three-stage minimum wage increase led to a reduction in teenage employment of 6.9% (about 98, 000 jobs) in the nineteen states affected by all three stages.
During the three months that Chavez was undergoing treatment and absent from the political stage, Maduro has been highly visible.
In early-stage prostate cancer, the gold standard of treatment for the past 25 years has been the surgical removal of the prostate.
However, the treatment is only at the experimental stage in the UK so he needs to travel to Israel if he is to get his wish.
The Commitment and Treatment Program, which was established in 2007, has been designed as a five-phase treatment regime, but the final stage, which would help inmates reintegrate into the community, has not yet been implemented by the prison.
It gives us hope that treatment might be implemented at an early stage for current and future athletes.
In cases of early-stage testicular cancer, surgery may be the only treatment needed.
But we also need to investigate the possibility that fewer women with later stage breast cancer in the UK receive the best treatment for their circumstances.
Some clubs make dancers rent out the stage in an elaborate end-run to avoid employee treatment.
Mr Maduro, who has been named by President Chavez as his preferred successor, said the treatment was in a "complex and difficult stage".
When taken step-by-step by the coroner through the treatment Mr Burns received, Dr Jaffrey said at each stage that it was appropriate.
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Also, 24 of 26 patients who received telaprevir in early-stage trials were cured of hepatitis C after six additional months of treatment with interferon and ribavirin.
The early-stage studies being conducted into Sanfilippo syndrome don't administer a drug or treatment.
In a mid-stage study, 13 of 15 patients who received Soliris did not require further treatment for aHUS. Based on some back-of-the-envelope math based on the incidence of aHUS in France and Italy, Sanford C.
Late last week, Millennium Pharmaceuticals (nasdaq: MLNM - news - people ) disclosed in a regulatory filing that MLN-02, a treatment for Crohn's disease, was effective in a mid-stage clinical trial.
They found that detecting and treating many early-stage breast cancers reduced the number of late-stage cancers and deaths only slightly, prompting them to conclude that much of the treatment was unnecessary in some cases because the cancers wouldn't have progressed, and in some cases because they were fatal despite being treated early.
Pharmion has a treatment for small cell lung cancer that is about to enter a late-stage clinical trial.
The two other possibilities, which were ruled out, were on-island heat treatment - in an incinerator, gasification or pyrolysis plant - or a further stage of processing to produce a fuel product, which would also be shipped off-island.
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