Mother gives birth to the 'heaviest girl ever born in the world' weighing FIFTEEN pounds (the same as a 6-month-old) 1  Girl was born at a hospital in India, twice the weight of an average baby.  Surprised her mother Nandini, 19, and medics with her size and weight.
Survival Rates. 1  The five-year survival rate for colon cancer found at the local stage is 90%. 2  The five-year survival rate for colon cancer found at the regional stage is 70%. 3  The five-year survival rate for colon cancer found at the distant stage is 12 %.
In a second single institutional series of 400 patients with stages I through IVb tonsillar cancer, of whom 140 underwent planned neck dissection (130 unilateral, 10 bilateral), the five year local control rates for T1-T4 disease were 83, 81, 74, and 60 percent The five-year cause-specific survival rates by stage were:tage I 65 percent Stage II 54 percent Stage III 44 percent Stage IV 30 percent. For patients with stage I and II cancers, survival rates appeared to be highest for patients treated with surgery alone, followed by surgery plus radiotherapy, and finally radiotherapy alone (75, 63, and 46 percent, respectively).