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...
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. (2015) Life expectancy of ...
There are currently 18 million cancer survivors in the US, 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. T...
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], ...
Survivor Diagnosed in Stage 3 Has Success in Clinical Trial When Russell Lamkin was first diagnosed with stage 3 mesothelioma, he was told it was inoperable and his life expectancy was about a year. He was then able to find success participating in a transarterial chemoperfusion study at the...
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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...
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(n = 112) describing survivor expectation in consultations reported most commonly expecting to discuss their current health status and late effects during; the majority of late effects raised in LTFU consultations were in the context of current symptoms rather than future risk [36]. In another...
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...