The technology of immunotherapy, namely Provenge at this time, affords my patients 4 months increased MEDIAN (not average) survival time over the best known chemo regimen, without the morbidity of the side effects of chemotherapy.
The mean survival time from diagnosis to death is 18 months for most pancreatic cancers.
They found no difference in survival time between hospice and non-hospice patients with breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer.
The data show that, after failure of second-line chemotherapy, lung-cancer patients rarely get any added survival time from further treatments and often suffer significant side effects.
Sixty-three per cent of doctors overestimated survival time.
The study was designed to measure progression-free survival, which is a measurement of the time from the start of treatment until the disease gets worse or the patient dies, and overall survival, which is a measurement of time from the start of treatment until death.
Since some CML patients live a long time, testing for survival would be difficult.
Health Concern has defied the political obituary writers before, but this time it is fighting for survival at county level.
Given the acute stress in money markets, however, the accent for the time being is more on survival than grabbing opportunities.
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Originally intended to furnish Apple's corporate museum, the materials were donated to Stanford in 1997 after Steve Jobs' return to the company, which was most concerned with financial survival at the time.
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Doctors say that most of these tumors are a pretty nasty variety, but some are less so, and if you can get them in time, your chances of survival go way up.
In 1969, Dr. Philip Blaiberg died in South Africa, 19 months and 15 days after receiving a heart transplant, a survival record at the time.
Mr Bridger spent a lot of time outdoors participating in what he called survival and bush craft.
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However, after following patients for a longer period of time, Provenge did seem to extend survival "It's hard to fake that, " Petrylak said.
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In a time that promises to test our business survival skills like no other, the challenges ahead for human resources, talent management, and community relations can feel endless and mind-numbing especially when generational change at the management level is factored in.
That has led, over a long period of time, to far better cure and survival rates for cancer, for heart disease, than we have in Britain and ultimately we have to not worry so much about the system as do we actually give people in Britain the health care we deserve, and that's what I want to see.
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Over time he increased patients' five-year survival rate in the same population to 70%.
"The longer the time goes on, the less chance of survival, " said Cindi West with the King County Sheriff's Office.
At a time in America when leaders are focusing on survival and reinvention, they should also be paying attention to their legacy.
Survival might build confidence, and time to turn things around.
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Operators know that rapidly converging the processes of policy control and real-time charging is critical for their long-term survival.
Pablo Piatti scored the winner three minutes from time for Almeria while Malaga boosted their hopes of survival after a 2-1 win at Espanyol.
The guilty, and their enablers, count on time and our need to focus on personal financial survival to squelch the calls for justice and revenge against someone, anyone, for the loss of jobs, retirement savings, and homes.
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Factory owners have been doing such things for survival ever since Frederick W. Taylor invented time-and-motion studies more than a century ago.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family at this critical time, " said Dale Anderson, founder of Project Survival Cat Haven in Dunlap.
The pressures working against survival in this market are severe, and time constraints to produce an enormous amount of copy in any given week are rarely flexible.
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" Morton Halperin was listed as a member of PEPIC's speakers bureau, all of whose members "will be donating their time, energy and fees to PEPIC to ensure its survival.
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