Five-year survival rate

Docetaxel, also known as toxetere, is used as an anti- cancer chemotherapy drug. It is used to treat cases of breast, lung, prostate, head, and neck cancer. Docetaxel is administered through IV. The amount of docetaxel patients receive depends on a lot of factors. Factors such as height, weight, the type of cancer being treated, and how far along the cancer has developed factors into how much medicine the patients receive. Use of docetaxel can result in low white and red blood cell counts. This…

to take over a specified region, the mass then begins to absorb the region’s main source of nourishment: the blood supply. This is known as cancer. Each year, approximately 7.6 million people die from cancer (World, 2013). Cancer can form in practically any cell of the body. One mutated cell has the possibility of replicating at an abnormal rate, exfoliating throughout the entire body to spread their mutated…

Indonesia and Malaysia. Their chances of survival in modern day is critically endangered by both human causes (primarily) and natural causes (most of which chiefly arises out of human causes as well). The former includes aspects like deforestation, palm oil plantation and illegal logging; whereas the latter includes aspects like forest fires, which is primarily associated with the rapid spread of oil palm plantations, illegal hunting and trade. Over the last several years, timber companies,…

Brain cancer, or rather brain tumors, are not all the same. There are four separate classifications for identifying brain tumors. The first is Grade 1, which means the brain has harmless cancer cells, which grow slowly but are not affecting the brain abnormally. The second is Grade 2, which is more dangerous than Grade 1, but only slightly so. The cells in Grade 1 and 2 only look slightly different than the normal brain cells, but it is still possible to identify them. The third type is…

Premature birth gives the baby less time to develop in the womb. Premature babies, especially those born earliest, often have complicated medical problems. The survival rates for a premature baby surviving rising the further along you are. Babies born at 23 weeks may survive with these specialists in a state-of-the-art NICU but the odds of survival are much lower”. A baby being born at 21 weeks survived and was reported to be a miracle. As the pregnancy progresses the chances…

2011, “Half (50%) of people with bladder cancer in England and Wales survive their disease for ten years more.” “When diagnosed at its earliest stage, more than 8 in 10 people with bladder cancer will survive their disease for five years or more, compared with around 1 in 10 people when the disease diagnosed at the latest stage.” (Bladder Cancer Statistics, 2015) 77.4% of people survive for five years or more after being diagnosed. “In 2015, it is estimated that there will be 74,000 new cases of…

The current poverty rate in Kabul, Afghanistan is twenty-nine percent. ADD ANOTHER SENTENCE! Hosseini uses the rigorous poverty in Afghanistan to carve the lives of Mariam and Laila as they fight for survival during the Taliban invasion in his book, A Thousand Splendid Suns. A Thousand Splendid Suns starts out when Mariam was five years old in 1974. When Mariam turns fifteen she finds her mother dead, by the act of suicide. Mariam was then left with her father, Jalil, and his other family…

farmers have more children to improve their farming because there is no new machinery available to assist with the jobs. “Child labor ages from five to fourteen years old and is fifty-three percent.” This than requires there to be more people to be fed. The increase in people causes the Gross Domestic Product to rise and also the standard of living. The poverty rate in Ethiopia is thirty percent. “Population living on a dollar a day is 26.3 percent.” Families are not able to support the…

For patients under 40 years old, trauma is the current leading cause of death and hemorrhage is the largest causation of that death. In the first 24 hours, hemorrhage accounts for upwards of 50% of trauma related death. With such a startling statistic, it is important that early identification combined with an aggressive treatment approach is implemented with these patients. This is what the basis of the article New Strategies for Massive Transfusion in the Bleeding Trauma Patient was about,…

populated country in the world and is one of the most densely populated, as well. Two-thirds of Bengalis live in rural areas, and the median age is 26 years. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), the life expectancy is 70 years, the under-five mortality rate is 41 per 1000 live births, the literacy rate among adults is 57.7%, and the crude death rate is 5.7 per 1000 people. As one of the poorest developing nations in the…