survival rates

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Eighty-year-olds with clogged arteries or leaky heart valves used to be sent home with a pat on the arm from their doctors and pills to try to ease their symptoms.

Now more are getting open-heart surgery, with remarkable survival rates rivaling those of much younger people, new studies show....

(Durham University) Stem cell scientists have developed a more accurate way of identifying aggressive forms of bowel cancer, which should eventually lead to better treatment and survival rates.

Bowel cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK.

(Public Library of Science) STEM cell scientists have developed a more accurate way of identifying aggressive forms of bowel cancer, which should eventually lead to better treatment and survival rates.

The findings are published in the open-access journal PLoS ONE.

(Wiley-Blackwell) Ninety-six percent of children who received liver transplants from living relatives were still alive five years after surgery.

And the 98 percent year one survival rates recorded by the UK specialist unit was higher than international averages, which ranged from 74 percent to 96 percent.

The research, published in the British Journal of Surgery, covers 50 children operated on between 1993 and 2006 by King's College Hospital in London.

During that period King's was the only UK centre carrying out the ground-breaking procedure.

Individuals with melanoma on their scalp or neck appear less likely to survive for five or 10 years than those with melanoma at other sites, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

By combining the use of stents and photodynamic therapy, also called SpyGlass, physicians at the University of Virginia have been able to significantly increase survival rates for patients suffering from advanced cholangiocarcinoma, cancer of the liver bile duct.

Studies have shown that surgery combined with Intraperitoneal Hyperthermic Chemotherapy can improve survival rates for select patients with peritoneal carcinoma (cancer of the lining of the abdominal cavity) that has spread from colorectal or appendix cancer.

Five- and 10-year survival rates for patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma appear to have increased from the 1990s to the early 21st century, according to a report in the March 10 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.