Rochester spreads knowledge of cancer-related fatigue
...nd cognitive functioning. Most patients can easily rate their fatigue on a scale from 0 to 10, researchers said. However, it is important for physicians to distinguish cancer fatigue from other ailments such as depression, and treat accordingly. -- Fatigue and cancer-related sleep disorders. Approximatel...Performance-related financial incentives for hospitals not linked with improved quality of care
...pitals. There was no significant difference in the rate of improvement in the composite score between the ...tly different. There was a slight reduction in the rate of deaths over time at both pay-for-performance and control hospitals, although the difference in th...Pancreatic surgery riskier for obese patients
...ing table, blood loss, length of hospital stay and rate of serious complications compared to normal weight...p. In addition, obese patients had an increased rate of serious complications compared to normal and overweight patients (27 percent vs. 18 percent and 1...Antipsychotic drugs increase risk of death in older people with dementia
...nsured people who gain insurance spend at the same rate as those who have had insurance continuously and insured people who lose insurance spend at levels similar to those who have been continuously uninsured (Article, p. 768). The authors suggest that "expenditures associated with gaining insurance will ...African-American men understimate risk of prostate cancer
..., are diagnosed later, and have a higher mortality rate from prostate cancer than Caucasians. "A group that underestimates the risk of having cancer is likely to underestimate the value of early detection and thus skip the whole process," said study author William Dale, MD, PhD, assistant professor of...Antipsychotic drugs increase risk of death in older people with dementia
... The investigators found: Estimated mortality rate among study participants was high, especially in the long-term care setting. Conventional antipsychotics were associated with higher risk for death than atypical antipsychotics, and atypical antipsychotics were associated with higher risk for dea...New Orleans levee report finished by panel including University of Texas at Austin engineer
...idents pre-Katrina risk was at a 1,000-fold higher rate than considered minimally acceptable for a major U.S. dam. A thousand people died in New Orleans, and the system failed once in 40 years, said the international risk assessment expert. Thats way off the chart of acceptable risk if you compare the ...Revlimid data presented at ASCO stands to change the way physicians treat multiple myeloma
...l vs 83% for Revlimid/HDD. The combined survival rate at one year was 96.5% with Revlimid/LDD vs 86% with Revlimid/HDD, more than a ten percent improvement in survival. About Multiple Myeloma Myeloma, also called multiple myeloma, is a cancer of the bone marrow that affects production of red cel...Adding radioimmunotherapy to chemo may help patients with lymphoma
... after treatment with IT. The complete response rate was determined by both conventional CT and the use of PET, or positron emission tomographya scan that measures abnormal molecular cell activity. PET was used to determine which patients had an early complete disease response after treatment with chem...Treatment for early prostate cancer associated with type of specialist seen
...with prostate cancer. The 5-year relative survival rate for men with localized prostate cancer is nearly 100 percent. Treatment side effects vary. The most common are urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction for prostatectomy; diarrhea and erectile dysfunction for radiation therapy; loss of libido, h...Phase II study shows combination improves survival of metastatic melanoma patients
...r of new melanoma cases has continued to rise at a rate of about 5 percent to 10 percent each year since the 1970s, Dr. Markovic says. Why" One cause, he says, is depletion of the ozone layer, but also, more cases are coming to light due to greater public awareness. "The increase in incidence is a big w...GSK's Pazopanib shows positive results in patients with advanced renal cell carcinoma
...ving pazopanib. The preliminary week 12 response rate for all 225 patients was 27%. In addition, stable...ved in 46% of patients for a total disease control rate of 73%. Responses have been observed beyond week 12, and the overall response rate will be reported...GSK's Pazopanib shows positive results in patients with advanced RCC and ovarian cancer
...ving pazopanib. The preliminary week 12 response rate for all 225 patients was 27%. In addition, stable...ved in 46% of patients for a total disease control rate of 73%. Responses have been observed beyond week 12, and the overall response rate will be reported...Gene variations point to why lung cancer drugs work better in Japanese vs. US patients
... cell lung cancer survived longer and had a higher rate of side effects than U.S. patients with the same diagnosis,.when both groups were given two well-known drugs for the disease. Now, a follow-up study suggests the reasons appear to lie in subtle variations in certain genes that govern how the body...Flaxseed stunts the growth of prostate tumors
...Men in both of the flaxseed groups had the slowest rate of tumor growth, Demark-Wahnefried said. Each group was made up of about 40 participants. Study participants took the flaxseed in a ground form because flaxseed in its whole form has an undigestible seed coat, she said. Participants elected to mix ...OHSU Cancer Institute shows findings of immunotherapy vaccine in prostate cancer patients
...to PSA recurrence, we did observe a slowing in the rate of rise of serum PSA in exploratory analyses. Addi... by this measure. However, investigators found the rate at which PSA was rising was 30 percent to 48 percent slower in patients who received sipuleucel-T co...Dasatinib shows high early response rate as first treatment for chronic myelogenous leukemia
...ase. Before Gleevec, the median five-year survival rate for CML patients was 50 percent. Researchers reported last year that the five-year survival rate of patients taking imatinib is 95 percent. About 4,500 people receive a diagnosis of CML in the Un...OHSU Cancer Institute, VA researchers find way to identify which men need a second biopsy
...tate cancer this new finding could also reduce the rate of overtreatment, unnecessary biopsies and overdiagnosis. Prostate biopsies can cause patient anxiety, pain, bleeding and infection, and can lead to a significant increase in medical and non-medical costs to health care systems and patients. Th......terval: 1.7-1.9) and the progression-free survival rate at six months was 14% (95% CI: 4.4%-23.6%). The me....9 months (95% CI: 6.5-14.6). The overall survival rate at 12 months was 46.3% (95% CI: 32.1%-60.5%). The most common toxicity was fatigue. Additional toxic...