News tagged with survival rates
Study finds survival rates from gastrointestinal tumors improving among African-Americans
Jul 14, 2009 |
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New research published in the July issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons reveals that African Americans with gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST), a rare cancer that begins in the wall of the gastrointestinal tract, ...
Bypass surgery has long-term benefits for children with Kawasaki disease
Jun 22, 2009 |
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Coronary artery bypass surgery provides long-term benefits for children whose hearts and blood vessels are damaged by Kawasaki disease, Japanese researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Survival rates for cancer rise across Ireland
Apr 24, 2009 |
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Survival rates for cancer are continuing to rise even though the number of cases being diagnosed is increasing, an all-Ireland report launched today reveals.
Human lung tumors destroy anti-cancer hormone vitamin D
Apr 20, 2009 |
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Human lung tumors have the ability to eliminate Vitamin D, a hormone with anti-cancer activity, a new study from the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) suggests. Results of the study are being presented at the ...
Why do blacks with advanced kidney disease live longer than whites?
Apr 15, 2009 |
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Blacks in the United States are more likely to require dialysis and develop end stage renal disease (ESRD) than whites, but they also live longer than whites once they reach later stages of kidney disease. A study of this ...
Racial disparities persist in the treatment of lung cancer
Apr 13, 2009 |
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Black patients suffering from lung cancer are less likely to receive recommended chemotherapy and surgery than white lung cancer patients, a disparity that shows no signs of lessening. That is the conclusion of a new study ...
More women with early-stage breast cancer choosing double mastectomies
Apr 09, 2009 |
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A University of Minnesota cancer surgeon and researcher has found a dramatic increase in the number of women diagnosed with the earliest stage of breast cancer choosing to have both breasts surgically removed.
FDA approves new drug for deadly kidney cancer
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A drug from Novartis has won U.S. approval as a treatment for patients with kidney cancer that has returned after treatment with older drugs.
Study examines effect of heart surgery on employment
Mar 30, 2009 |
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A new studying appearing in Congenital Heart Disease compares the careers and long-term occupational successes of men and women who underwent surgery for congenital heart disease to those of the general population. The pr ...
Environment plays role in complex heart defect
Mar 30, 2009 |
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A congenital heart disease that often leads to death in newborns is significantly more common during the summer, leading researchers to believe that the environment, and not just genes that affect the heart, may play a role ...
New analysis shows liver cancer incidence has tripled since 1970s, but survival rates improving
Feb 18, 2009 |
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A new study examining data on incidence trends, mortality rates and survival rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer registries indicates that the incidence of liver ...
White patients benefit more than blacks in surviving surgical complications at teaching hospitals
Feb 16, 2009 |
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Elderly patients who undergo surgery at teaching-intensive hospitals have better survival rates than at nonteaching hospitals, but these better survival rates apparently occur in white patients, not black patients.
Kidney transplant survival can be long-term for people with HIV
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 19, 2009 |
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A Johns Hopkins study finds that HIV-positive kidney transplant recipients could have the same one-year survival rates for themselves and their donor organs as those without HIV, provided certain risk factors for transplant ...
Study examines racial disparities in survival among patients diagnosed with lung cancer
Jan 19, 2009 |
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Disparities in survival among black patients diagnosed with early-stage lung cancer are not seen when patients are recommended appropriate treatment, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Surgery, one of ...
Minimizing obesity's impact on ovarian cancer survival
Dec 29, 2008 |
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Obesity affects health in several ways, but new research shows obesity can have minimal impact on ovarian cancer survival. A study by researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Comprehensive Cancer Center ...
