Sentence examples for extend a patient from inspiring English sources

Neither did much to extend a patient's life.

It is typically fatal within two to five years of diagnosis, though a ventilator can extend a patient's life.

Such cancers are essentially incurable so the best that current treatments can do is extend a patient's life.

An unusually bold stand by doctors at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York has forced a big drug company to reduce the cost of an overpriced drug for treating colorectal cancer that was no better than a cheaper competitor and did almost nothing to extend a patient's life.

In this study, we investigate the problem of patients' evolution on the basis of medical tests before and after treatment after brain trauma: we want to understand to what extend a patient can become similar to a healthy participant.

So Badwe and his colleagues set out to examine whether surgery and radiation actually did extend a patient's survival.

A transplant can extend a patients life for several months but also possibly several years.

The drug Riluzole, for example, slows the symptoms of A.L.S. and, on average, extends a patient's life by three months.

Initially, it was thought that the procedure had perhaps a 10 percent chance of significantly extending a patient's life.

Pulmonary complications are the primary reason for extending a patient's stay in the ICU.

For example, if a treatment extends a patient's life by 2 years and the utility of patient health status after treatment is 0.8, we would say that treatment leads to an additional 1.6 (ie, 2*0.8) QALYs.