Patient Survival Articles & Analysis
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There is a pressing need for alternative precision medicine solutions to better characterize patients for individualized treatment decisions. If clinicians could better define the prognosis for these patients, their clinical management, monitoring, and systemic treatment decisions could be optimized to improve survival outcomes. To address this ...
Having CPR skills enables these professionals to give immediate care until medical professionals come. This helps improve survival rates in emergencies. Flight Attendants and Cabin Crew Flight attendants are responsible for the safety and well-being of passengers on board. ...
The Value of VEGF in Tumor Screening Most tumor patients are diagnosed in the middle to late stages, and early screening and timely diagnosis of suspicious or asymptomatic patients can improve the survival rate of tumor patients and prolong their overall survival. ...
Medical History Jane is a 40-year-old, married mother of two teenage boys. She teaches at the local elementary school and has been in good health for most of her life. She has no surgical history. Her most severe ailment up to this point has been the flu at age 27. Her students are first-graders; they are often difficult to control. She also experiences the normal stresses of raising ...
In recent years, the application of targeted therapies has significantly prolonged the survival of patients. However, drug resistance, brain metastases, and other problems have become increasingly prominent in clinical practice. ...
Materials and Methods We analyzed gene expression in frozen lung cancer tissue from 59 selected patients who had undergone surgical resection of NSCLC. These patients were divided into two groups: group R, patients who had a tumor recurrence within four years, n=37; group NR, patients who remained disease-free four years ...
We excluded patients who had follow up time less than 3 years or received adjuvant therapy and had not had a recurrence, as well as patients with missing specimen blocks. ...
The hazard ratio (80% confidence interval) for overall survival (OS) time for patients in the study group versus those in the standard-of-care group was 0.69 (0.51-0.92). ...
There’s been a huge emphasis on developing new treatments to improve survival in patients with cancer, but these trials have become a costly undertaking for sponsor companies. ...
The key to this patient's recovery was a blood stem cell transplant: The researchers first used chemotherapy drugs to kill the patient's own immune cells and then transplanted new cells that would not be infected by HIV. ...
It is reported that repeated intranodal inoculation of mRNA can stimulate T cell responses by tumor-associated antigens, which can improve the patient's progression-free survival. 3. Physical delivery method Physical methods can also be used to allow mRNA to penetrate the cell membranes. ...
KBCT Compared to Traditional Modalities The Koning Breast CT will dramatically improve the way clinicians visualize and evaluate breast tissue, mitigating patient discomfort and increasing survival rates. Future versions of our technology are expected to optimize early disease detection, diagnosis, intervention, and treatment. ...
Enter, the “boutique” style clinic that sees less patients, provides superior cleanliness and gets faster more effective results. How do you survive? Your patients will gladly spend more money for better results in a safe clean environment. ...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) provides further complication. The likelihood of a patient dying from sepsis increases by 7.6% each hour that treatment is not administered. ...
A trial involving ovarian cancer patients at Guildford’s Royal Surrey Hospital (UK) has found they have a higher chance of having all the tumour removed when undergoing surgery using argon plasma. ...
This is critical because over 85% of recurrences are generated from incomplete removal of cancer cells along the margin, and almost 100% of patients who survive past 6 months experience recurrences.The Sentry system uses a hand-held optical probe to pinpoint cancerous tissue for removal, often centimeters past the margins identified by conventional technologies. ...
A fibre-optic probe can detect errant cancer cells within healthy tissue during brain tumour surgery with close to 100 per cent accuracy and sensitivity, reducing the risk of recurrence and thereby increasing a patient’s survival time, say the Canadian researchers who developed the device. ...
Allocation of pre-hospital EMS (Emergency Medical Service) resources and effectiveness of emergency medical training are critical to patients. The demands for EMS are expected to increase in the future. By analysing the relationship between emergency response and the survival rates, the effectiveness of EMS resources and competence of personnel were evaluated. In ...