Tag: Survival
Late Morbidity, Mortality Down for Survivors of Childhood ALL
Compared with 1970s, rate of subsequent malignant neoplasms lower with standard-risk 1990s-like therapy
Rates of Prescription Opioid Use Higher in Cancer Survivors
Cancer survivors have similar rates of prescription opioid misuse versus those without cancer
Life Expectancy Gap Closing for Patients With HIV
But more attention needs to be paid to comorbidities in patients with HIV, authors say
PFS Prolonged With Continuous Dabrafenib, Trametinib in Melanoma
Median PFS longer with continuous versus intermittent treatment, but overall survival similar
Smoking Tied to Inferior Survival in Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Smoking associated with inferior survival among patients receiving intensive chemotherapy for AML
Low Vitamin D May Reduce Survival for Some With Multiple Myeloma
Differential effect seen by race, with significantly lower OS for white but not African-American patients
Late Mortality Down for Young Adult, Adolescent Cancer Survivors
Five-year mortality from all causes overall decreased, but improvement was limited for some cancer types
Survival After Pediatric Kidney Transplant Drastically Improved
Survival up from 1970-1985 to 2005-2015 mainly due to drop in deaths from CV causes, infections
Late Mortality Up for Survivors of Early-Teen, Young Adult Cancers
Risks for late mortality, chronic health conditions higher compared with siblings, general population
Survival Similar for Hemodialysis, Peritoneal Dialysis
Meta-analysis included data for 113,578 patients with incident dialysis from 1993 to 2014
