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Doctors over-estimate survival of terminally ill patients
Doctors tend to over-estimate the survival of terminally ill cancer patients, but become more accurate closer to the date of death, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Accurate prognoses are important so patients can plan for death. Researchers reviewed eight studies involving more than 1,500 patients over 30 years to assess the accuracy of doctors' survival predictions. They found that doctors'... View More (2003-07-23)
Tackling depression in cancer patients can extend life
A study recommended by David Spiegel of Faculty of 1000 Medicine, looks at the relationship between depression care management and survival rates in older patients. View More (2008-04-11)
Vaccine yielded encouraging long-term survival rates in certain patients with NSCLC
Long-term follow-up of a phase II clinical trial showed encouraging survival in some patients with stage 3B/4 non-small cell lung cancer treated with belagenpumatucel-L, a therapeutic vaccine. View More (2012-04-04)
Study shows modest improvement in advanced lung cancer overall survival rates
Research released in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology sought to determine whether the survival improvement among patients with metastatic lung cancer has improved over the last two decades as reported in controlled clinical trials. View More (2009-12-01)
Shorter ambulance response times would cut heart attack deaths
Reducing ambulance response times to 5 minutes could almost double the survival rate for cardiac arrests not witnessed by ambulance crews, finds a study in this week's BMJ. All out of hospital cardiopulmonary arrests due to cardiac disease attended by the Scottish Ambulance Service during May 1991 to March 1998 were analysed to determine the association between ambulance response times and... View More (2001-06-06)
Inappropriate sepsis therapy leads to fivefold reduction in survival
Patients experiencing septic shock who receive inappropriate therapy may have a fivefold reduction in survival, shows a new study. View More (2009-11-05)
Survival Benefit For Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients Treated With Methotrexate (p 1173)
The anticancer drug methotrexate could have a substantial survival benefit among patients with rheumatoid arthritis, conclude authors of a prospective US study in this week's issue of THE LANCET. Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disease which results in reduced life-expectancy and is associated with cardiovascular disease, infection, and cancer. Low-dose methotrexate is the main... View More (2002-04-04)
Cancer Survival Rates Higher Than Previously Assumed
Conventional estimates for life expectancy after cancer diagnosis have been too pessimistic, suggests a study in this week's issue of THE LANCET. There are two main ways of quantifying survival estimates after cancer diagnosis. The conventional method, known as the cohort method, is based on the survival experience of cancer patients whose diagnosis occurred many years ago. This method therefore... View More (2002-10-09)
Patients' pretreatment quality of life can predict overall lung cancer survival
Research published in the September 2009 issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology has found that an individual's quality of life prior to treatment can help predict the overall survival of patients with advanced stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). View More (2009-09-03)
Amrubicin improved response rate and progression-free survival vs. topotecan in Phase III trial
Lung cancer patients given amrubicin (Calsed) as a second-line therapy had a significantly improved response rate and longer progression-free survival than patients treated with topotecan (Hycamtin), according to research presented at the 14th World Conference on Lung Cancer in Amsterdam, hosted by the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). View More (2011-07-07)
Lung cancer patients with diabetes show prolonged survival
Lung cancer patients with diabetes tend to live longer than patients without diabetes, according to a Norwegian study published in the November issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, the official publication of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer. View More (2011-10-17)
What affects the survival of patients with tuberculosis?
As the incidence of tuberculosis (TB) in Canada declines, so too does the experience of physicians with this disease. What impact will this have on patient survival? View More (2006-09-26)
Longer Delays Associated With Better Survival
Patients who experience the longest delay in treatment are more likely to survive, despite the popular assumption that delay has a significant and harmful impact on survival, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers collected data from the case notes of 703 women resident in Scotland who were diagnosed between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 1997 as having endometrial cancer. They calculated... View More (2002-07-24)
Noninvasive liver tests may predict hepatitis C patient survival
Non-invasive tests for liver fibrosis, such as liver stiffness measurement or the FibroTest, can predict survival of patients with chronic hepatitis C. View More (2011-06-15)
First worldwide analysis of cancer survival finds wide variation between countries
Cancer survival varies widely between countries according to a worldwide study published online today in Lancet Oncology.* More than 100 investigators contributed to the study. View More (2008-07-17)
Benefit of public defibrillators is marginal
Making defibrillators widely available in public places such as airports and shopping centres is not justified by the marginal improvement in survival, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers in Scotland used records of all out of hospital cardiac arrests due to heart disease from 1991-1998 to estimate the potential impact of public access defibrillators on overall survival after out of... View More (2002-09-04)
Prostate cancer vaccines more effective with hormone therapy
Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with either treatment alone or when the vaccine followed hormone treatment, according to recent data published in the July 15 Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. View More (2008-07-10)
Type of lung cancer screening used to detect disease may impact 5-year survival rates
Dr. Hisao Asamura and his team of researchers at The National Cancer Center Hospital in Tokyo, Japan examined the records of 2,281 patients who underwent lung cancer resection surgery between 2000 and 2006. View More (2009-05-05)
Preoperative/neoadjuvant therapy in pancreatic cancer
In research published this week in PLoS Medicine, Jörg Kleeff from Technische Universität München, and colleagues suggest that patients with apparently locally non-resectable tumors should be included in neoadjuvant protocols. View More (2010-04-21)
Avalanche victims buried in Canada die significantly quicker than those buried in Switzerland
Significant differences were observed between the overall survival curves for the two countries; compared with the Swiss curve, the Canadian curve showed a quicker drop at the early stages of burial and poorer survival associated with prolonged burial," writes Dr. Pascal Haegeli, Simon Fraser University, with coauthors. View More (2011-03-22)
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