Prognosis in Medical News

Low prevalence of HPV infection may be tied to poor prognosis for blacks with head and neck cancer

... patients traditionally have had a poor prognosis for head and neck cancer. "For the first time, ... infection. We found an astounding difference in prognosis between patients who are HPV-positive and those ... and this study gives us a new way to assess prognosis for our patients," says Dr. Lippman, who is ...

New lung cancer staging system revealed

... has been revised to more accurately reflect the prognosis for patients with non-small cell lung cancer ... common nomenclature and more clearly defines the prognosis for patients with NSCLC through the addition of ... the location and spread of the tumor, and the prognosis for patient subgroups. "The original system ...

I-SPY trial offers key insights into locally advanced breast cancer

... the way researchers screen for, treat and assess prognosis for women with locally advanced breast cancer, an ... tumors develop in younger patients, have a worse prognosis and are large (min. 3 cm.). The results were ... also determined that in those patients with poor prognosis profiles response to the chemotherapy was a very ...

$1.5 million awarded for palliative care research to improve care of seriously ill patients

... Boston, will examine the interplay between hope, prognosis communication, and end-of-life decision-making in ... find ways to improve how physicians communicate prognosis and support parents' hopes for their child's ... information about the patients' disease and prognosis and resources to assist the clinician with the ...

NYU Langone Medical Center's tip sheet to the 45th Annual Meeting of ASCO

... on Saturday, May 30, 2009 MicroRNAs may aid in prognosis of metastatic melanoma Eva Hernando-Monge, ... Blood-based marker may be tied to poor melanoma prognosis Iman Osman, M.D., associate professor of ... found in the blood may be associated with a poor prognosis in melanoma patients. Researchers at the NYU ...

New genes involved in acute lymphoblastic leukemia play fundamental role in prognosis of the disease

... of certain genes plays a fundamental role in the prognosis of acute lymphoblastic leukemia as well as in ... of diagnosed patients. Subgroup with worst prognosis With this research a set of 13 microRNAs was ... relapse, disimprove and present the worst prognosis and survival rates. These are the patients ...

New prognostic markers for gastric cancer patients

... for new molecular markers for identifying the prognosis of gastric cancer patients. This study, ... of them can be important indexes for the prognosis of gastric carcinoma. In the view of the authors, ... as p53, have been reported to correlate to the prognosis of gastric cancer patients. Cell adhesion is one ...

Integrating genetic information with breast cancer risk factors may help refine prognosis

... added an additional source of information to aid prognosis and clinical decisions. In particular, the ... clinical and pathological risk factors to refine prognosis and to improve therapeutic strategies for early ... correspond with relapse risk scores to refine prognosis with the clinicopathological prognostic model ...

PROGNOSIS Extends its Popular IP Telephony Management Software to Support Nortel Environments

... Integrated Research (ASX: IRI), developers of prognosis performance monitoring and management solutions, ... through version 9.5 of its market-leading prognosis IP Telephony Manager software. This expanded functionality now means that prognosis is the only specialized IP telephony management ...

Scoring system identifies MDS patients who have low-risk disease but a poor prognosis

... can identify them, we can start those with a poor prognosis on early treatment," says lead author Guillermo ... which Garcia-Manero says misses low-risk/poor prognosis patients. Myelodysplastic Syndromes are a group ... note. "Identifying these low-risk, poor prognosis patients could allow us to be more aggressive, ...

Study Shows MammaPrint(R) Breast Cancer Test Provides Benefits to Patients from Personalized Treatment Regimen

... on the use of MammaPrint(R) Breast Cancer prognosis Test in clinical practice - AMSTERDAM, The ... that the MammaPrint(R) breast cancer prognosis test was successfully implemented in the ... patients were classified as having either a poor prognosis (high risk for distant metastasis) or ...

JCI table of contents: Oct. 18, 2007

... cause of death from cancer in the world. The prognosis for individuals with lung cancer depends on the ... the best outlook. However, being able to predict prognosis would help doctors target treatments to patients ... therefore have suggested that determining patient prognosis using this gene signature might identify ...

Microarray provides 3 genomic guides to breast cancer treatment decisions

... option separate from a patient's overall prognosis if no treatment followed surgery. It is important ... for five years. The index did not predict prognosis among 507 patients who did not receive hormone ... to hormone therapy independent of a patient's prognosis if no post-surgical treatment is received," ...

Better treatment selection and improved therapies -- key to improving prognosis in acute HF

... is tremendous because of the large number of patients involved, their poor prognosis and the costs of the treatment." In a presentation at Heart Failure ... give us some hope that we will finally be able to improve the symptoms and prognosis of such a large patient population as that suffering from acute heart ...

Younger men with advanced prostate cancer have shorter survival times

... based on age. In general, a younger cancer patient has a better prognosis than an older patient with the same type of cancer. Few studies have ... cancers, the youngest men (aged 35 to 44 years) have a particularly poor prognosis compared with older men. These young men are more likely to die from ...

Type of lung cancer screening used to detect disease may impact 5-year survival rates

... screening, particularly though CT-scans, can have on improving patient prognosis by detecting the disease at an early stage. The accuracy of CT scans allow ... stage and physically smaller, making it more operable. With lung cancer prognosis and survival depending heavily on the stage of the disease upon diagnosis, ...

JNCI April 28 tip sheet

... ratios of four genes could distinguish between those who have a good prognosis after surgery and those who have a poor prognosis. In the current ... low-risk group. "Patients whose gene ratio test results predict a good prognosis after surgery may more confidently select the treatment option that ...

Siemens Highlights Cardiac-Specific C-Reactive Protein (hsCRP) Test at ACC 2009

... of future cardiovascular disease and risk stratification for the prognosis of recurrent cardiac events. When used in conjunction with traditional ... hsCRP measurements may also be useful as an independent marker of prognosis of recurrent events in patients with stable coronary disease or acute ...

Study finds biological clue in brain tumor development

... The reason for the link between WNT pathway activation and better patient prognosis is as yet unclear. It could be that these tumours represent a less ... Overall, this is an important finding in a poorly understood, poor prognosis disease, which we hope, in time, will lead to the development of new ...

Washington DC-area IVF Specialist Suheil Muasher, MD Addresses Fears of Infertility Treatments after Octuplet Mom News

... guidelines from ASRM stipulate that: women under 35 with a favorable prognosis of carrying a fetus to term should have 1-2 embryos transferred; those ... prognosis) should have 2 embryos transferred; those with an unfavorable prognosis should have 3. The guidelines typically increase the number of embryos ...

Genetic Mutations Linked to Deadly Brain Cancer

... -- the most famous current patient is Senator Edward Kennedy -- and the prognosis is grim. While the cancer typically doesn't spread to other parts of the ... costs less than $100 could provide information to patients about their prognosis by revealing the type of tumor they have, Yan said. The results are ...

Efficacy of stents is improved when their placement is determined by arterial blood flow measurement

... artery disease; PCI has been shown to improve symptoms, but the impact on prognosis is still a matter of debate. The cornerstone of PCI is the technique ... therapy. The FAME study has now shown that by using FFR we can improve the prognosis of patients and reduce the number of unnecessary interventions. As a ...

Family Needs to Know When Patient Survival Is Uncertain

... of critically ill patients want doctors to frankly discuss the patient's prognosis even if it is uncertain, a new study finds. The University of San ... unique needs of surrogates, and then tailor their approach to discussing prognosis to meet those needs," he said. "This is an area in need of well-designed ...

Oral cancer patients could be diagnosed earlier

... neck cancer are initially diagnosed in a late stage, which has a five year prognosis of less than 50 percent. If these tumors are found in their earliest stage, the five year prognosis is 95 percent. All dentists, including prosthodontists, are ...

New Analyses Confirm Nexavar's Efficacy and Safety in Multiple Patient Subsets With Liver Cancer

... #149, Presidential Plenary Identification of biomarkers predicting prognosis and/or response to treatment in patients with HCC may facilitate a more ... from the trial, investigators examined several biomarkers that may predict prognosis and/or response to treatment. Nexavar's Differentiated Mechanism ...

Scientists take cancer research back to the basic molecular level

... changes in DNA . A new biomarker that could more accurately determine the prognosis of patients with head and neck carcinoma. A more complete and accurate ... tumors and identify germ line and somatic determinants of patient prognosis and response," said conference chairperson Gordon B. Mills, M.D., Ph.D., ...

Brain's Olfactory Bulb Grows With Sense of Smell

... loss as a means to provide patients with individual information on the prognosis of their disease," the study authors wrote. "Hypothetically, a ... to eventually come up with a formula that would allow a more precise prognosis of olfactory function. Especially since therapeutic options in patients ...

Sen. Kennedy Undergoing Surgery for Brain Tumor

... percent of all cancer-related deaths in the United States. A patient's prognosis depends on the "grade" of the tumor, said Dr. Isabelle Germano, ... complement of therapies, Subramaniam said. Without treatment, however, the prognosis is usually a few months. But the outlook isn't always that grim. ...

Ted Kennedy Released From Hospital

... percent of all cancer-related deaths in the United States. A patient's prognosis depends on the "grade" of the tumor, said Dr. Isabelle Germano, ... complement of therapies, Subramaniam said. Without treatment, however, the prognosis is usually a few months. But the outlook isn't always that grim. ...

Obese women disadvantaged in both breast cancer treatment and diagnosis

... have) in order to better understand exactly what role obesity plays in the prognosis of the patients. There are some reports showing that obese patients are ... other researchers have demonstrated that obesity is linked to worse prognosis in breast cancer patients, and obesity has been linked with many other ...

USC study finds evidence of gender-related differences in development of colon cancer

... -- a gene widely expressed in colonic tissue -- has been linked with poor prognosis in colon cancer, says Oliver Press, an M.D. student at the Keck School of ... "We expected to find that high expression would correlate with a poor prognosis and faster growth of the cancer," says Press. "What we found was that men ...

A protein that triggers aggressive breast cancer

... high level of SATB1 expression by itself is an excellent indicator of poor prognosis -- independent of whether breast cancer cells have already metastasized to ... SATB1's key part in aggressive breast cancer has profound implications for prognosis and for possible new treatments for cancer's most malignant forms. At the ...

Journal Chest -- March 2008 news briefs

... in the March issue of the journal CHEST. CPAP THERAPY IMPROVES prognosis FOR PATIENTS WITH OSA, HEART FAILURE New research shows continuous ... study, Japanese researchers determined the effect of CPAP therapy on the prognosis for 88 patients with heart failure and OSA. The patients were categorized ...

Factors that enhance autonomy of cancer patients

... registered. For example, it is useful if the patient and carer know the prognosis and diagnosis of the illness. The medical report should indicate the level ... if the patient has been denied information about his or her diagnosis or prognosis and if they have been let read the true medical report and, if the case ...

Breast cancer subtypes linked to survival from secondary brain tumors

... a possible link between breast cancer subtypes and the incidence and prognosis of brain metastases, which occur in up to one third of metastatic breast ... 10-15% of all breast cancer presents this phenotype; they have a poor prognosis and are more likely to develop brain metastases. Triple receptor status ...

Precious Time - 'Scientists discover how long heart failure patients can expect to live'

... followed these patients over a six year period to determine overall prognosis and various high/low risk patients based on hospital admission ... aggressive cancers. Physicians and patients had little understanding of prognosis after hospitalization, this information is crucial to identify patients ...

Early detection critical in treating pediatric thyroid cancer

... the patients survival rate, since cases of pediatric cancer have a better prognosis than that in adults. As a result, the authors concluded that age of ... size of the tumor, which is considered a significant factor in determining prognosis in adult patients, does not play a significant role in a childs prognosis. ...

Pancreatic cancer: The smaller the tumor, the better your chances, study shows

... many advances in the fight against other cancers in recent years, the prognosis for patients diagnosed with the pancreatic cancer has remained extremely ... were men. Researchers found a striking correlation between a patients prognosis and the size of their tumor at the time of diagnosis. Of the 12 ...

Some types of temporary neurological problems associated with increased risk for stroke, dementia

... Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and colleagues studied the incidence and prognosis of focal, nonfocal and mixed TNAs. The study included 6,062 participants ... prognosis. This study argues that, whatever is causing these events, the prognosis justifies greater attention. More needs to be done to identify the TNA ...

MammaPrint(R) Breast Cancer Test Shown To Be Powerful Tool for Prognosis Prediction in Postmenopausal Breast Cancer Patients

... diagnostics, announced today that its MammaPrint(R) breast cancer prognosis test was shown to be a valuable tool to assess risk of breast cancer ... seek additional clearance from the FDA for its MammaPrint breast cancer prognosis test to include patients over age 60. In the underlying study, breast ...