A RECENT study of survivorship among the blind in Massachusetts [1] reveals that blind persons under 65 suffering from retrolental fibroplasia had a significantly better survivorship than other blind individuals . This may be the result of a pineal effect upon longevity . Ten year survival rates for major affections in the Massachusetts study (see Table 1) reveal that blind males under 65 with ...

PURPOSE To describe survivorship services provided by the Children's Oncology Group (COG), an assessment of services was undertaken. Our overall aims were (1) to describe survivorship services, including the extent of services provided, resources (personnel, philanthropy, and research funding), billing practices, and barriers to care and 2) to describe models of care that are in use for childho...

BACKGROUND Patients with cancer are living longer with their disease and have improved survival rates because of early detection and more effective cancer treatments. Lifestyle modification and exercise improve clinical outcomes in breast cancer survivors. OBJECTIVES Exercise has important implications for the survivor and should be integrated into the aftercare trajectory of survivorship. ...

In 2008, an estimated 1.4 million people will be diagnosed with cancer in the United States (1). More than twothirds of these individuals will experience a ‘‘cure’’ due to improvements in early detection and treatment (2). Overall, the number of cancer survivors in the United States now exceeds 11.1 million (3) and increases f2% annually (4). The cancer survivorship experience also touches unto...

BACKGROUND The Nordic registry reports patients under 50 years old with total hip replacements realize only 83% 10-year implant survivorship. These results do not meet the 95% 10-year survivorship guideline posed by the UK's National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in 2014. METHODS The purpose of this study is threefold: First, we evaluate if metal-on-metal hip resurfacing art...

BACKGROUND Helping cancer survivors to transition from active treatment to long-term survivorship requires coordinated efforts by both oncologists and primary care physicians (PCPs). This study aims to evaluate cancer survivors' perspectives on PCP-delivered survivorship care. METHODS We conducted an Internet-based cross-sectional survey of cancer survivors via www.OncoLink.org . Regression a...

We examined the impact of dose fractionation and altered MICs on survivorship in a neutropenic rat model of Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis employing the new fluoroquinolone antibiotic lomefloxacin. Once-daily administration of a drug dose which produced a high peak concentration/MIC (peak/MIC) ratio (ca. 20/1) produced significantly better survivorship compared with regimens employing the same d...

BACKGROUND Increasing numbers of the very elderly are undergoing aortic valve procedures. We describe the short- and long-term survivorship for this cohort. METHODS AND RESULTS We conducted a cohort study of 7584 consecutive patients undergoing open aortic valve surgery without (51.1%; AVR) or with (48.9%; AVR + CABG) concomitant coronary artery bypass graft surgery between November 10, 1987 ...

We examined the survivorship of Anopheles gambiae s.l. Giles (Diptera: Culicidae) larvae and habitat productivity in three major habitat types in the western Kenya highlands. The age-specific distribution was determined for larvae and pupae, and survivorship curves were constructed. Larval-to-pupal survivorship was 6.8% in drainage ditches, 4.3% in cow hoofprints, and 1.8% in disused goldmines,...