Tag: Survival
Higher Administrative Payment Burden Causes Delays in Cancer Care
Younger patients, African American patients appear to have more cost-related delays/nonadherence
Many Heart Attack, Stroke Survivors Do Not Know Their Cholesterol Levels
American Heart Association says knowing levels is key to preventing recurrent heart attack, stroke
ESC: Bystander Defibrillation Improves Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival
Effect was significant even for EMS response times as short as two to four minutes
Prognostic Factors ID’d for Stage IIIb AL Amyloidosis
Symptom onset to diagnosis longer than six months, bone marrow plasmacytosis ≥10 percent associated with shorter overall survival
Nivolumab + Ipilimumab Tops Ipilimumab Alone in Metastatic Melanoma
Significant improvement seen in progression-free survival for combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab
Lorazepam Has Negative Impact on Survival in Pancreatic Cancer
Alprazolam reduced IL-6 in human pancreatic cancer-associated fibroblasts and was associated with improved progression-free survival
Time to Treatment Not Tied to Worse Outcomes in Young Colorectal Cancer Patients
Findings seen for both overall survival and cause-specific survival
Living in Disadvantaged Neighborhood Shortens Breast Cancer Survival
Findings seen after adjusting for sociodemographics, comorbidity, breast cancer risk factor, access to care, tumor, and guideline-concordant treatment
Adding Pembrolizumab to Chemo Improves Survival in Endometrial Cancer
Addition of pembrolizumab to paclitaxel plus carboplatin yields longer progression-free survival in advanced, recurrent disease
Adding Dostarlimab Improves Progression-Free Survival in Endometrial Cancer
Dostarlimab plus carboplatin-paclitaxel linked to increased progression-free survival overall and in dMMR-MSI-H population
