They decided that the small chance for surviving to transplantation would not outweigh the burden of continuing curative-restorative treatment.
The variables Hosp and Rx correspond to referring a patient to hospice and continuing current curative treatment, respectively.
There were also parents who recognized that cure was unlikely, and even then they elected to continue cancer curative treatment.
Based on the concept of threshold probability, the patient should be referred to hospice if his/her probability of death is greater than or equal to P t e.g. p ≥ P t), and he/she should continue receiving curative treatment otherwise (p < P t).
The downgrading of health posts, which were previously staffed with nurses, was considered to be disappointing for communities, put pressure on HEWs to continue performing curative services and resulted in HEWs being worried and frustrated due to their inability to adequately meet the expectations of the community.
Much progress has been made in the management of chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia (CP-CML), but there is a continuing imperative to develop curative treatments, predict patient responses to specific modalities, and anticipate disease relapse or progression.
The lifetime costs for CRC encompass the initial costs regarding surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the continuing costs of follow-up after potentially curative therapy, and the eventual cost of terminal care.
The Greek soldiers, taken with saffron's perceived curative properties, continued the practice after they returned to Macedonia.
Continuing consultation, therefore, was deemed to be of little value as no effective curative treatment could be offered.
After talks with her doctors, it was clear that further curative care for her condition was not going to extend her life, and that continuing her treatments would involve discomfort and hospitalization that were not how she wanted to experience this final chapter of a life well-lived.
There remains a continuing need to identify clinically relevant factors that would improve the prediction of survival in patients undergoing potentially curative surgery for colon cancer.
