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Remission is either the reduction or disappearance of the signs and symptoms of a disease. [1] The term may also be used to refer to the period during which this reduction occurs. [2] A remission may be considered a partial remission or a complete remission. Each disease, type of disorder, or clinical trial can have its own definition of a ...
Spontaneous remission. Spontaneous remission, also called spontaneous healing or spontaneous regression, is an unexpected improvement or cure from a disease that usually progresses. These terms are commonly used for unexpected transient or final improvements in cancer. Spontaneous remissions concern cancers of the haematopoietic system (blood ...
A hospital readmission is an episode when a patient who had been discharged from a hospital is admitted again within a specified time interval. Readmission rates have increasingly been used as an outcome measure in health services research and as a quality benchmark for health systems. Generally, higher readmission rate indicates ...
Just 2 psilocybin doses are at least as effective at treating depression as 6 weeks treatment with escitalopram with better remission rates and improved well-being outcomes up to 6 months.”
For level one, the remission rate was 28-33% (depending on the symptom scale used), and the response rate was 47%. [5] Higher remission rates were seen in patients who were Caucasian, female, employed, or had higher levels of income or education. [5] Lower remission rates were seen in those with longer depressive episodes, co-occurring anxiety ...
Response evaluation criteria in solid tumors (RECIST) is a set of published rules that define when tumors in cancer patients improve ("respond"), stay the same ("stabilize"), or worsen ("progress") during treatment. The criteria were published in February 2000 by an international collaboration including the European Organisation for Research ...
147,100 (2015) [5] Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a cancer of the myeloid line of blood cells, characterized by the rapid growth of abnormal cells that build up in the bone marrow and blood and interfere with normal blood cell production. [1] Symptoms may include feeling tired, shortness of breath, easy bruising and bleeding, and increased ...
Acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML, APL) is a subtype of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a cancer of the white blood cells. [3] In APL, there is an abnormal accumulation of immature granulocytes called promyelocytes. The disease is characterized by a chromosomal translocation involving the retinoic acid receptor alpha (RARA) gene and is ...