Background and Purpose: Leukemia is the most prevalent type of cancer in children and its prognostic factors vary in different geographic locations. The aim of this study was to estimate the 5 years survival rate of children suffering from leukemia in Kerman, Iran and to investigate the factors which might influence it. Materials and Methods: This was a cohort study conducted on...

BACKGROUND Intensive care of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is associated with substantial morbidity, mortality and cost; however, there is very little published work on this topic. The purpose of this study was to examine direct costs and survival outcomes of patients with TBI admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU). METHODS A retrospective review of the records of Trakya University Hospital'...

This study deals with the question of how to model health effects after the cessation of a randomized controlled trial (RCT). By using clinical trial data on severe congestive heart failure patients, we illustrate how survival beyond the cessation of an RCT can be predicted based on parametric survival models. In the analysis, we compare predicted survival and the resulting incremental cost-eff...

Research shows that chemotherapy for inoperable non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) improves survival. The economic implications of this treatment choice may be substantial. This paper reviews studies examining the cost-effectiveness of chemotherapy in this setting. MEDLINE, PDQ, Cancerlit, EMBASE, and the Nursing & Allied Health databases were searched using the terms cost, cost-effectiveness, ...

Quantifying fire regimes in the boreal forest ecosystem is crucial for understanding the past and present dynamics, as well as for predicting its future dynamics. Survival analyses have often been used to estimate the fire cycle in eastern Canada because they make it possible to take into account the censored information that is made prevalent by the typically long fire return intervals and the...

background: rhabdomyosarcoma is a rare malignant soft tissue sarcoma and the most common sarcoma of childhood. the purpose of this study was to investigate the distribution of age and sex of patients, pathological subtypes and to determine the role of staging and classification of rms on treatment outcome. materials and methods: this retrospective study included patients who diagnosed with rms ...

PURPOSE To investigate the impact of chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy on disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) rates of patients with thymic carcinoma after complete resection. METHODS Between 2001 and 2013, 54 patients with complete resection of thymic carcinoma in Hangzhou Cancer Hospital were retrospectively reviewed. The Kaplan-Meier method was used to evaluate the surviva...