Misleading Statistics of the Media 
.... One such example is the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) use of the five-year
survival rate as a basic measurement of a cancer treatment's success. ....
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Acute Myocardial Infarction
.... Thus, they assumed further that the
survival rate in the case of routine hospital care would be half way between that for out of hospital cases where ....
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Breast Cancer Treatment in the Elderly
.... Finally, Schottenfeld and Robbins observed a relative five year
survival rate of 84.4% in patients aged 65 and over with localized disease which was treated by ....
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Treatment for Lung Cancer
The five-year
survival rate for lung cancer patients is only 14 percent, and yet lung cancer is curable in the early stages. Radiotherapy ....
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Treatments for Lung Cancer Patients
The five-year
survival rate for lung cancer patients is only 14 percent, and yet lung cancer is curable in the early stages. Radiotherapy ....
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Skin Cancer
.... The tumor is less than 1.5 millimeters thick. The five-year
survival rate is greater than 80-100%. .... The five-year
survival rate is greater than 65%. ....
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Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
.... Unfortunately though, the group's reported
survival rate was only 10 percent. .... In 1992, the overall neonatal
survival rate was determined to be 81 percent. ....
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BREAST CARE FOR ELDERLY WOMEN This research exam
.... The five year
survival rate subsequent to diagnosis is 100 percent if the breast cancer is not invasive (Heyman, Tyner, Phipps, Cave, and Owen, 1991, p. 35). ....
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BODY IMAGE AND MASTECTOMY
.... The five year
survival rate subsequent to diagnosis is 100 percent if the breast cancer is not invasive (Heyman, et al., 1991, p. 35). ....
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Health Education For Senior Citizens
.... The five year
survival rate subsequent to diagnosis is 100 percent if the breast cancer is not invasive. The five year
survival ....
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Bone Marrow Transplantation One application of im
.... cell lines. Bone marrow transplantation in these patients has been associated with a 50%
survival rate at 36 months. Patients in ....
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Bone Marrow Transplantation
.... cell lines. Bone marrow transplantation in these patients has been associated with a 50%
survival rate at 36 months. Patients in ....
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Malignant Melanomas
.... cytotoxic immune responses might play roles in the decreased growth of primary tumors in B 700 antigen-inoculated mice, and in their higher
survival rate. ....
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Esophogeal Cancer
.... A follow-up was conducted over a five year period and the results demonstrate that overall
survival rate and the median
survival in both groups was similar ....
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What is an Aneurysm
.... abdominal aortic aneurysms are the most common type of aneurysm, and the United Kingdom Small Aneurysm Trial found that the 30-day
survival rate for patients ....
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ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON BREAST CANCER Amos, CI, Goldstein, A
.... This study examined the effects of race on response, time to progression and
survival rate for black (N=74) and white (n=74) randomly selected cancer patients ....
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Holistic Treatment of Cancer
.... The
survival rate of 334 Bristol patients with secondary tumors was half that of a control group of 461 opting for conventional treatment at three other ....
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Breast Cancer Rehabilitation
In recent years advances in cancer treatment have led to a prolonged
survival rate for many people who receive a cancer diagnosis, and it is estimated that ....
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End-Stage Renal Failure & Rehabilitation Rehabilitation of patien
.... Various studies have additionally reported that 5-year dialysis patient
survival rates are between about 60% and 70%; the 10-year average
survival rate is in ....
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COLON CANCER: ETIOLOGY, SYMPTOMS, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT
.... 80). Nor do we have a means of curing the disease in every case. The five-year
survival rate is about 50% (10:241). Nevertheless ....
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End-Stage Renal Failure Rehabilitation of patien
.... Various studies have additionally reported that 5-year dialysis patient
survival rates are between about 60% and 70%; the 10-year average
survival rate is in ....
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Rehabilition of Patients with Renal Disease Rehabilitation of ...
.... Various studies have additionally reported that 5-year dialysis patient
survival rates are between about 60% and 70%; the 10-year average
survival rate is in ....
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DECISION TREE MODELS
.... A policy analyst, however, may be more concerned with the
survival rate of patients exposed to alternative cancer treatments (a benefit), or alternatively, the ....
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Analysis of Leukemia and its Treatments Leukemia is not a single ...
.... While the overall five year
survival rate of all patients with leukemia has tripled since 1960, it still stands at only 43 percent. ....
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Thermobiological Diagnostics
.... Another study showed a 61 percent increase in
survival rate for patients followed up due to initial thermographic abnormalities compared to a control group of ....
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Jews in Poland after 1945
.... century. During WWII the
survival rate for Jews in Poland was 1 percent. During WWII, Poland was partitioned by Germany and Russia. ....
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Cancer and Nutrition
.... He reported that the
survival rate of patients treated with Vitamin C had a
survival rate four-and-a-half times greater than that of the control patients ....
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ADOLESCENT SUICIDE IN CANADA Introduction The
.... frequently. However, female adolescents have a higher
survival rate than male adolescents because they use less lethal means. Leenaars ....
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Lucy Grealy's Story of Her Cancer
.... account of her ordeal takes us through her home, school, and hospital experiences as she tries to recuperate from a form of cancer with a 5%
survival rate. ....
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Autobiography of a Face
.... account of her ordeal takes us through her home, school, and hospital experiences as she tries to recuperate from a form of cancer with a 5%
survival rate. ....
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