There is the occasional breakthroughs like Gleevec from Novartis that extend survival for years.
The median overall survival two years after starting treatment was 23.3 months for Xeloda and Tykerb and had not been reached for patients in the T-DM1 group.
AstraZeneca 's (nyse: AZN - news - people ) Crestor began a big survival trial three years before, and it just finished early, proving that Vytorin's main rival does prevent heart attacks and strokes.
Over the years, survival rates have improved as a result of more accurate imaging studies and better anaesthetic and operative techniques.
"The river was integral to the city's survival for hundreds of years and it was equally essential to the city that it disappeared, " said the artists.
And now the first large study to look at the long-term benefits of long-term tamoxifen shows taking the drug for the full five years boosts survival substantially.
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Of course those who have an operation, the range is somewhere between 10 or 15 percent to 30 percent survival rate after five years, depending on what stage the cancer is, whether the surgeons could get what are called clean margins, and whether it's metastasized.
Over the last 30 years, cancer survival rates in the United States have improved markedly.
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Sightings of Gigi were reported for years but her survival was never verified.
After two years, the survival rates were 15% and 9% respectively.
Prof Fisher said in Newcastle, average survival of CF patients was 10 years post transplant.
Eight years ago the very survival of America's number two Spanish-language broadcaster, Telemundo, was in question.
Dr. Kennett prosecuted his case with gusto, also suggesting that the impact had extinguished North American mammoths, just as an earlier impact had finished off the dinosaurs (a theory hard to reconcile with the survival of mammoths for thousands of years longer on islands off Siberia and Alaska, where hunters could not reach them).
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Choosing an effective leader was, until the last couple of hundred years, a matter of survival, and having a leader who was passionately committed to the welfare of the group and its ultimate success would be a huge advantage.
Thousands of years ago, this was a survival aid -- your anxiety-induced focus helped you steer clear of potential predators.
People have been in survival-mode over the last couple of years.
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Gender task specialization in mammal packs over millions of years was the best way to guarantee survival and evolution.
The survival rate of firms where the owner died two years afterward was 20% lower than at similar firms where the owner was living.
However, there has been little to no increase in survival rates of childhood cancer in the last 20 years due to the lack of access to new cancer agents.
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For many business owners, survival has been the operative word for the past five years.
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People whose oral cancer is detected early have an 80% chance of surviving for five years, compared to an average five year survival of 50%.
The tough economics of Nascar over the past few years has demanded the consolidation of racing teams for survival.
Promises were made to you over the years that you gave up for the sake and survival of this industry -- its workers, their families.
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The foundation has ponied up millions over the years to groups that include the Center for Ecosystem Survival, the EarthAction Network and the UN Population Fund.
His party, struggling for survival since being overtaken by the Greens in national elections six years ago, has bounced back to its traditional position as Germany's third political force in the two most recent state elections.
In fact, the genome resembles nothing so much as a hodgepodge of borrowed, copied, mutated, and discarded sequences and commands that has been cobbled together by millions of years of trial and error against the relentless test of survival.
Survival rates have improved with 77% of women now living at least five years after treatment.
Millions of years of evolution have honed the skeleton into the perfect shape for survival.
Five years after her first diagnosis, amidst planning her five-year survival celebration, I got a call that it was back.
You have a 98% chance of survival and will get to write about the experience and share your stories for years to come.
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