21.   Now, because of bone-marrow transplants, patients can survive the higher doses.

22.   Once the disease takes hold throughout the body, most patients survive for about four years.

23.   Once rabies symptoms appear, death is inevitable, he said, but all patients survive if they are vaccinated early in the course of the disease.

24.   Pienta says some patients survive up to two years on the combined chemotherapies.

25.   The drugs will be termed successful if patients survive significantly longer than they normally would and are able to function, Miller said.

26.   The lower the amount of virus, the longer a patient survives.

27.   The patients survived, but the close call gave doctors a genuine scare.

28.   This type of injury often requires an amputation if the patient survives.

29.   While it appears the patient has survived, the prognosis is not yet for a full recovery.

30.   With treatment at this stage, doctors believe most patients will survive.