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Children age 0-3 months with brain tumours shows five-year survival: Study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Aurora [US], March 28 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Colorado (CU) Cancer Center has found that the youngest patients with brain tumours - those ages from 0 to 3 months - have about half the five-year survival rate as children ages 1 to 19.
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Study: Head, neck cancer treatment can be improved by immunotherapy drug
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Ohio [US], March 5 (ANI): By adding an immunotherapy drug to the standard of care treatment regimens, the survival rates for head and neck cancer patients with intermediate-risk features increased, suggests a recently conducted clinical trial by the University of Cincinnati.
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Immunotherapy drug strengthens head, neck cancer treatment: Study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Ohio [US], March 1 (ANI): A recently conducted clinical trial by the University of Cincinnati showed that by adding an immunotherapy drug to the standard of care treatment regimens, the survival rates for head and neck cancer patients with intermediate-risk features has increased.
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Researchers develop smart probe for early tumour diagnosis
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 28 (ANI): As five-year relative survival rates differ greatly between cancer patients treated at early or later stages, hence early detection of tumours is of great importance to cancer therapy.
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Vaccine inequity causes 'dangerous divergence' in COVID survival rates: UN
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 28 (ANI): The global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines is progressing at "two alarmingly different speeds", UN agency leaders said.
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Obesity might protect against death in severe bacterial infection
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 30 (ANI): The findings of a new study suggest that though overweight and obesity are risk factors for many diseases, a higher BMI can be linked to higher survival rates in patients hospitalized for severe bacterial infections.
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In severe bacterial infection, obesity protects against death
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 25 (ANI): Though overweight and obesity are risk factors for many diseases, a new study suggests that a higher BMI may be linked to higher survival rates in patients hospitalized for severe bacterial infections.
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Study finds how diet, exercise can improve survival for leukemia patients
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 4 (ANI): A study led by researchers at UCLA and Children's Hospital Los Angeles shows that a low-calorie diet and mild regular exercise can improve the survival rate of overweight children and adolescents receiving chemotherapy for treatment of leukaemia.
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Rela Hospital sets benchmark in liver transplant with 99.2 percent patient
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 2 (ANI/NewsVoir): Rela Hospital, a Multi-Speciality Quaternary Care Hospital at Chromepet, Chennai, has accomplished a truly remarkable global milestone of achieving 99.2 per cent patient survival rate from the liver transplant surgeries performed since
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Certain pre-existing conditions may increase mortality risk for COVID-19 p
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Pennsylvania [US], October 9 (ANI): A new study conducted on COVID-19 patients has confirmed that cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, congestive heart failure, chronic kidney disease, stroke and cancer can increase a patient's risk of dying from the virus.
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Pandemic poses risk to decade of progress in health, education, child surv
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI/Sputnik): A decade of growth of the Human Capital index, defined by improvements in health, education and child survival rates, faces an unprecedented threat from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic unless nations begin developing long-term protection
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Study finds new keys for unlocking head, neck cancer treatment
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Brisbane [Australia], August 1 (ANI): Discovery of new cellular immunotherapy that targets a deadly type of head and neck cancer, caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), could lead to better survival rates, said Queensland scientists.
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