Life expectancy provides meaningful information on cancer patients, and can help in assessing when a cancer survivor can be considered as cured.doi:10.1093/annonc/mdv131Capocaccia, R.Gatta, G.Dal Maso, L.PubMedAnnals of OncologyCapocaccia R, Gatta G, Dal Maso L. Life expectancy of colon, ...
To understand what factors may be associated with the narrowing of the gap in life expectancy among survivors treated in more recent decades, we examined the composition of diagnoses and treatments by treatment era. The distribution of most cancer diagnoses in the survivor cohorts remained largely st...
Results Among the hypothetical cohort of 5-year survivors of childhood cancer representative of the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study participants (44% female and 56% male; mean [SD] age at diagnosis, 7.3 [5.6] years), conditional life expectancy was 48.5 years (95% uncertainty interval [UI], ...
and there will be an estimated 26 million survivors by 2040. As the survivor population grows and their life expectancy increases due to continued treatment advances, comprehensive cancer centers have implemented cancer survivorship programs. The goal of this special section is to characterize the histo...
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Another hybrid model of BC survivor management, which combines screening with a clinical service, has been developed in the health care district of Rome. Apart from some exceptions, all women receive a personal invitation to participate in the organised screening programme. BC patients who are not...
Data collected between 1970 and 1986 for the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study were analyzed. Because the group about whom information was gathered has now aged, the researchers could assess the factors (other than those of the initial diagnoses and treatment) that influenced life expectancy. In all...
I know that there are different stages of bowel cancer and I expect that the life expectancy of a person depends on a lot of different factors, including the stage of bowel cancer. There must be some statistics pointing to general life expectancy and survivor rates? Can anyone tell me about...
that’s in terms of decisions about their own treatment. For patient advocates, that’s about research priorities and practices,” saidMarty Chakoian, a prostate cancer survivor who heads the PNW Prostate Cancer SPORE patient advocate committee. “I’m really grateful to Pete Nelson and the whol...
Life Insurance for Cancer Survivor We often get asked:Can you get life insurance after a cancer?orCan you get a life insurance policy if you have been a cancer patient? And the answer is: Yes, you may be able to get life insurance policies in those cases. For guaranteed issue life insur...