Five-year survival rate

effects. A 2011 study from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center illustrated the potential benefits from matching therapies with specific gene mutations across many cancer types. What they found was that patients who received a target therapy had 27% response rate compared to 5% for those whose therapy was not matched. This specific type of approach will reduce the number of patients who are unnecessarily…

patients with prostate cancer. Most of the time radiation will stop the growth of the tumor rather than get rid of it completely. Percentage of men diagnosed with prostate cancer from 2010-2012 was 14 percent. Survival rate of these men that use radiation therapy is about 27% after five years (“Recurrence”). Another popular way to treat patients of cancer is to use surgery. Surgery is probably the most straight-forward form of removing cancer, but it also has some side effects. Some include;…

than I’d ever been in Afghanistan”(Junger, 63). This piece of imagery is to let you in on what PTSD feels like. How unusually everything is and the fear it creates. It also shows that from a survival perspective crowded areas are bad.…

United States. In 2010, we had a rate of 171 cancer deaths per 100,000 people. It is projected that the actual number of cancer patients dying will continue to increase steadily each year. Cancer statistics guide researchers towards new ways of preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer. Five-year relative survival rate is the percentage of patients who have not died from their cancer five years or more after being diagnosed. If the percentage surviving 5 years is 66%, this means that out of…

Carcinoid tumors are slow-growing neoplasms that derive from neuroendocrine cell. Rectal carcinoids or neuroendocrine tumors account for 12 - 27% of all carcinoid tumors (Modlin and Sandor 1997; Modlin, Lye et al. 2003). Although it accounts for < 1 - 2% of all rectal neoplasia, the prevalence of rectal carcinoid is increasing partly due to increased colorectal cancer screening (Modlin, Oberg et al. 2008; Murray, Sippel et al. 2012). Majority of rectal carcinoids are diagnosed incidentally.…

A bonobo is the closest living realtive to a human, sharing 98% of our DNA. Their average weight is 68-86 pounds and around 23-35 inches in height. In the wild, the average lifespan is 40 years, in captivity it’s 65 years. These mammals are complex beings with profound intelligence, emotional expression and sensitivity. The only place that they can be found is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and live in the Congo Basin. There is said to be between 10,000 to 50,000 left in the wild.…

Background The preserve has existed longer than Florida Atlantic University, as the years went by it began to decline in size. Many animals have found the preserve as their home including the gopher tortoise. Gopher tortoise are a type of ectotherm animal that can live up to sixty days. They feed on vegetation and build burrows as their homes. The burrows they build can be used by about three hundred different animals as protection. Over the time, Gopher tortoise has evolved as a very threaten…

observable, but extinction rates are incredibly fast. Reading this book is imperative to understand how much humanity effects the world around us. Extinction is easily recognizable because of its uniqueness compared to survival of species. Extinction “takes place very rarely, more rarely than even speciation, and it occurs at what’s known as the background extinction rate” (15 Kolbert). In other words, extinction should not be as easily recognizable as it is presently. Only five times in the…

Introduction In Haiti, 11.6% of children under five years old are underweight, while 21.9% of children under five are stunting (World Health Organization, 2017). Malnutrition and undernutrition in children is a major problem, with many consequences. If children are not properly nourished they are not going to grow up and be able to make money for themselves or the country. Children and women are affected by malnutrition than most out of the whole population of Haiti. Women and children living in…

help. Every one of the doctors had told her to abort him; they told her that aborting him would be the best choice, due to they believed he has an extra chromosome 13, which is called Trisomy 13; the life span is two minutes after birth up to two years. Isaiah's organs would be in the wrong place, he would have major heart problems, his brain would not have any protection, he will not have a left eye, and he will have a cleft lip. Ashley accepted Jesus…