All took the life-extending compound if they could get it.

For many, access to life-extending medications was that turning point.

The life-extending formula is too powerful to be taken at once," she said. "

We simply can't go backwards to a time when cancer patients had to beg for life-extending treatment.

But mankind has known about its potentially life-extending properties for a while too.

Like her two younger siblings who had died of the disease during the 1980s, she declined life-extending treatment.

Evidently the Vatican could buy its people the best life-extending treatments.

Anyone up for a life-extending trip to the mall?

It is simply unacceptable that patients are being denied these life-extending treatments.

This suggests, the charity said, that more than 1,300 patients across the country may have been denied life-extending drugs.

The sick could go “private” to secure life-extending treatments that the state is denying them.

The researchers say the reason, at least in part, seems to be that community hospitals are not making full use of proven, life-extending treatments.

“This places a far higher cost on the patient and effectively charges them for life-extending treatment,” she added.

His family has helped pay for four treatments of the potentially life-extending drug, Yervoy.

But the life-extending benefits come at a cost.

Of course, improvements in life-saving and life-extending technology will boost costs, as they already have.

The life-extending effect of calorie restriction however is not shown to be universal.

Prostate cancer patients are also waiting for Nice to issue their decision on abiraterone, another life-extending treatment, which is due soon.

But if the life-extending mechanism can be found, perhaps some other compound, with fewer liabilities, will also work.

But surely most patients would rather get life-extending treatments than languish in neglect.

All Jane wanted was fair access to life-extending drugs."

The team’s next step is to test whether boosted autophagy can indeed explain the life-extending effects of exercise.

Brains are the weakest link in any life-extending process.

When used correctly - a daunting challenge, even in the United States - these drugs are life-extending.

Given clear and convincing evidence of the patient's choices, hospitals may forgo life-extending treatment without having to go to court.