In a 2003 study, the researchers reported 30% of their newly diagnosed patients were multi-drug-resistant.
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Temodar is being used off-label to treat newly diagnosed patients, and extends the survival rate by eight weeks.
This included a large number of newly diagnosed patients, 13% of whom were found to be multi-drug-resistant, the study said.
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Now new drugs that could be approved within a year could increase the cure rate to 70% for newly diagnosed patients.
When I was first diagnosed with multiple myeloma nine years ago, only half of newly diagnosed patients survived more than five years.
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In some small studies in India, a big portion of untreated or newly diagnosed patients were multi-drug-resistant, meaning they had picked up resistant forms of the disease.
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Even with its demonstrated successes, MEPACT is still sidelined in the approval process for use in newly diagnosed patients by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
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The currently recommended treatment for newly diagnosed patients is a single pill (Atripla) taken dailythat combines three brand-name antiretrovirals - tenofovir (Viread), emtricitabine (Emtriva) and efavirenz (Sustiva).
Newly diagnosed patients start down a predictable and understandable path.
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The drugs, now entering final-stage human trials, are given to newly diagnosed patients for just a few days or weeks but appear to preserve some insulin-producing capacity for years.
Now newly diagnosed patients are tested for resistance if they continue to test positive for TB after two months of the regular treatment, or if they have been treated before for TB and are now sick again.
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About 24 million people in the United States have diabetes, and about eight to 18 percent of newly diagnosed cancer patients also have the disease.
When China released its first nationwide survey this year, it found 5.7% of that country's newly diagnosed TB patients were multi-drug-resistant, according to a study published this year in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Overall, 6.6% of 4, 400 newly diagnosed TB patients in the study, conducted at 18 clinics nationwide, were found to be drug resistant, an officer of the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, a nonprofit conducting the study for the Indian government, said at a private presentation last week.
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However, sadly there are hundreds of thousands of newly-diagnosed cancer patients in the UK each year who are receiving treatment or looking for a way to deal with their disease.
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Keith Alcorn, of the National Aids Manual, said the findings showed it was important for all newly diagnosed HIV-positive patients to receive a resistance test before starting treatment.
Most published research on aggressively treated older patients with newly diagnosed AML has noted complete remission rates between 40 and 60 percent.
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But younger, newly diagnosed and well-motivated patients with a long life expectancy may want to aim for even lower levels, closer to 6%, according to the recommendations.
He gives Livestrong cancer guidebooks to patients he meets who have been newly diagnosed, but has separated his feelings about the foundation from Armstrong.
In other cases, there are patients, for example those with newly diagnosed heart failure, who were purposely excluded from the studies because of general agreement that they would not benefit from the therapy.
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They also show that 98.7% of patients (741 out of 751) who were newly diagnosed with cancer started treatment within the target time of 31 days.
Private Health is designed to backfill these gaps whenever one of its patients has a medical emergency or complex condition, say, a traumatic brain injury or newly diagnosed cancer.
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