The survival rates depend on several factors: the type of cancer your child has, the stage of the cancer when your child was diagnosed, and your child's response to treatment. Overall, survival statistics are currently well over 77%, and over 85% for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. And those number keep rising every year. The goal of the Children's Oncology Group is to reach an 85% overall survival rate by the year 2009.

Only 5-10 percent of people survive SCA without immediate treatment. However, areas with successfully implemented AED programs have seen survival rates of about 50 percent. When an SCA victim receives an AED shock within three minutes of their attack, survival rates increase even more.

Information collected from hospitals all over the world indicates a mortality rate of less than 5% from major liver surgery. In other words, you have at least a 95% chance of surviving your operation.

The answer to this question depends on many factors. But, overall, 87% to 95% of adult patients at CPMC (California Pacific Medical Center) and 90% of children overall survive and are discharged from the hospital after liver transplantation.

According to the American Heart Association, Patient delay?rather than transport or hospital delay?is the biggest cause of not getting rapid care for heart attacks which increase the chances of irreversible heart damage. Heart Watch's Service ensures immediate detection of emergency heart condition. It is our job to make sure that our members act in time, every time, thus increase our subscribers survival chances and provide ultimate peace of mind to our members and their loved ones.

In general, pretty good. The 5-year survival rate for all women diagnosed with breast cancer is 85%. Your chances are better is you are diagnosed early. In fact, when breast cancer is confined to the breast, the 5 year survival rate is over 95%. This is why it is important to take steps to detect breast cancer in its earliest stage.

The greatest risks to your house are plants near it. While the Berkeley Fire Department recommends 30 feet of defensible space around a house, we understand that it is not always possible due to the lot sizes in the Berkeley Hills. Please refer to the Quick Fix Checklist in the "Protect Your Home from Wildfire" brochure to learn more about defensible space and things you can do to minimize the fire hazards around your house.

Don't get shot. Don't attack a group unless you are in a group. Pick off stragglers and careless ones. Attack fast and move on, don't slug it out. Find the good spots to hide in waiting, and pounce on Marines from behind. By the time most can spin around to meet a rear attack, you can kill them. Never let them see you until you are right on top of them. Use an unwitting fellow alien to distract your prey so that you may sneak up. USE THE MAP!

The majority of the oil in the TRICOLOR has already been pumped out in January and February 2003. However, it is an established fact that a small amount of oil remains within the wreck of the TRICOLOR, in spots that couldn’t be reached in her current condition/during the oil recovery operation. Therefore, the salvage team has taken sufficient measures to counter this threat in close co-operation with the relevant authorities.

Many of the operations can be found on the Internet, but also prior to operation your surgeon will be glad to discuss the technical portions of the operation. Some patients want to know exactly how each stitch is placed and others do not want to know much about the technical portions of the operation. Please feel free to discuss this with your surgeon.

If you are of normal fertility, under the age of 38 (statistically important), and are able to time your inseminations appropriately to your ovulation, your chances of success should approach that of a normal fertile couple, which is about 20% per cycle. You can see our latest stats reported by clients on the web at http://www.nwcryobank.com/information.asp.

That’s impossible to say. What we can tell you is that there will be about 12-15 teens selected from all over the country. We try our best to create a diverse team that represents teens from different geographic regions, socioeconomic levels, ethnicities, viewpoints, and life experiences. Half of the team will be male and the other half female.

Unfortunately, it is impossible to predict how many accepted applicants will decline their admission offer or be canceled.

The last authenticated veteran of the Confederate army was Pleasant Crump of the 10th Alabama Volunteer Infantry, who died on 31 Dec 1951. Previous claims to be the last veteran of the Confederate army were made for Walter Washington Williams (died 19 Dec 1959) of Texas and for John Salling (died 19 Mar 1959) of Virginia. However, their claims must be rejected, since among other reasons, census records indicated that, in 1860, Williams was only 5 years old and Salling was just 2 years old.

Do not participate in gym or sports for at least 6 weeks after the operation. School notes are available at the office.

Each of our clinic locations is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., with rotating physician schedules to accommodate surgery days. Each provider's appointment (clinic) and surgery availability is posted on his or her profile page.

A comprehensive, pre-operative instruction sheet will be sent to you. In short, you are forbidden to consume alcoholic drinks for 24 hours prior to your procedure. Similarly, you are not to take aspirin containing drugs in the seven days before attending surgery. Herbal preparation Gingko Biloba and Vitamin E tablets should be also be ceased 1 week beforehand. Any medication your family doctor may have prescribed for you must be mentioned to Dr. Shiell as well.

Arthroscopic surgery is not very painful generally following surgery, but you will require some pain medication, by mouth, for which we will give you a prescription. Generally this medication is used for a few days.

You will feel comfortable during surgery. You may be awake or slightly drowsy and might hear some unfamiliar sounds. If there is something that you find uncomfortable, you will be able to tell your surgeon about it through the drapes over your head. Your greatest contribution to the success of the surgery will be to relax and remain quiet.

quot;Risks include bleeding, which could lead to splenectomy (unusual), perforation of esophagus or other organ, which could lead to other operations and serious infections in the abdomen or chest (<0.5%), and difficult adjustment to operation, which could require revisional surgery (<0.5%). quot;Approximately 5% of cases will need to resort to an open incision as opposed to using a minimally-invasive laparoscopic technique."

We understand that this is a major concern for patients and acknowledge that most operations lead to some degree of postoperative pain or discomfort. We take great care to minimise postoperative pain using a variety of techniques. At operation we infiltrate local anaesthetics into wounds and provide patients with pain killers to go home with. We recommend that these be taken regularly for the first 48 hours.