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Disparities in head and neck cancer patients

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 06, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A new analysis finds considerable disparities in survival related to race and socio-economic status among patients with head and neck cancer. Published in the November 15, 2008 issue of Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the ...





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Cancer patients who are separated when diagnosed have worse survival rates

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Among unmarried cancer patients, those who are separated at the time of diagnosis do not live as long as widowed, divorced, and never married patients. That is the conclusion of a new study to be published in the November ...


New statistical method shows importance of dialysis dose

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new approach to statistical analysis may be better suited to study the relationship between higher "dose" of dialysis and survival time for patients with advanced kidney disease, according to an upcoming paper in the Journal of ...


Uninterrupted chest-compressions key to survival in cardiac arrest outside hospital setting

Uninterrupted chest-compressions key to survival in cardiac arrest outside hospital setting

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created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Maximizing the proportion of time spent performing chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) substantially improves survival in patients who suffer cardiac arrest outside a hospital setting, ...


New treatment more than doubles survival for high risk childhood leukemia

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created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Results of a phase two clinical trial published October 5th in the Journal of Clinical Oncology show that adding continuous daily doses of a targeted drug called imatinib mesylate to regular chemotherapy more than double ...


Surviving breast cancer -- low-income females worst hit

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created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Later diagnosis, less first-course treatment and race are the main reasons for the difference in mortality between rich and poor breast cancer patients. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Cancer, sugges ...


Study finds higher survival rate among intoxicated trauma patients

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created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Trauma patients who were intoxicated before their injuries were more likely to survive than trauma patients who suffered similar injuries but were sober at the time, according to a study published in the October edition of ...


Aspirin shows promise for colon cancer patients

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created Aug 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Men and women who were diagnosed with colorectal cancer and began regular use of aspirin had a lower risk of overall and colorectal cancer death compared to patients not using aspirin, according to a study in the August 12 ...


Avastin dramatically improves response, survival in deadly recurrrent glioblastomas

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The targeted therapy Avastin, alone and in combination with the chemotherapy drug CPT-11, significantly increased response rates, progression-free survival times and survival rates in patients with a deadly form of brain ...


D2 lymphadenectomy improves the long-term survival for patients with node-negative gastric cancer

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created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Many studies favor an extended lymphadenectomy at the time of a potentially curative gastrectomy for node-positive gastric cancer, and the risk of long-term death tends to decrease when the number of resected lymph nodes ...


Switching early breast cancer patients to exemestane improves long-term survival

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created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New research has found that switching post-menopausal women with early breast cancer to the drug exemestane (Aromasin) after two or three years of tamoxifen rather than keeping them on tamoxifen for five years improves the ...



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