What does DFS stand for?

For a significant number of patients, conventional chemotherapy does not deliver long-term, disease-free survival.

Unfortunately, because spacecraft technology is way ahead of our understanding of how to maintain human health, disease-free survival after reaching Mars or establishing a colony on the Moon may be problematic," he added.

Obese patients with oestrogen-receptor negative disease that received 85 r more of the first protocol specified dose had significantly better disease-free survival and overall survival than those who received less than 85 f the normally recommended dosage.

Results from this study showed that HER2 and TOPO2A were only moderately able to predict sensitivity to anthracyclines (HR for disease-free survival 0.

The final results of the ACCORD07-FFCD 9703 trial, presented at the ASCO 2007 meeting, confirmed the MAGIC conclusions in 224 patients with adenocarcinoma of the stomach or lower oesophagus: chemotherapy given perioperatively (2-3 cycles of preoperative 5-FU and cisplatin, followed by surgery, followed by 3-4 cycles of the same regimen given postoperatively) improved R0 resection success rates (87% versus 74%) and 5-year disease-free survival and overall survival (34% versus 21% and 38% versus 24% respectively).

The BIG 2-98 trial, presented by Dr De Azambuja of the Jules Bordet Institute in Brussels has shown that women with a BMI over 30 had poorer outcomes for disease-free survival and overall survival.

My interpretation of FDA bylaws is that I cannot approve a drug based on disease-free survival unless I have evidence of improved quality of life.

The investigators will analyze the records of 233 patients with prostate cancer who underwent seed implants and were treated with curative radiation therapy to determine if an increase in the number of dropped seeds resulted in decreased biochemical disease-free survival.