Oakes uses the standard condescension -- "he's street smart" -- to describe Jake, a description that presumes a patronizing lack of survival skills, even though Jake's urban savvy should make him the ideal candidate for this assignment.
But the panel voted that the lack of survival benefit when Iressa was combined with chemotherapy and used in initial treatment of lung cancer patients did not rule out a benefit from using Iressa alone in patients for whom chemotherapy did not work.
Perhaps worried by our lack of survival skills, Gunther took an almost paternal interest in our welfare, developing the handy knack of popping by just when we were most in need, lending us a torch, finding us some matches, bringing us pots and pans, dropping off a bag of charcoal, or, on one memorable occasion, darting off to catch one of the fireflies that glowed in the bush after dark.
The mitoxantrone-prednisone drug combination was approved in the United States based on palliative end points and became the standard of care despite the lack of survival benefit.
More recently, the lack of survival benefit in cancer patients admitted to the ICU with multiple organ failure [10, 17] has raised concerns about the timing of ICU admission [11].
In related examples, a trichostatin A-dependent improvement of CLP-induced hepatic injury in C57BL/6 mice did not increase their survival, and a similar lack of survival advantage was true in the CORTICUS trial septic patients in whom hydrocortisone treatment strongly attenuated organ injury [41].
Fey also gives her zombie apocalypse survival (or lack of survival) strategy in the video below.
Fortunately, everyone was understanding and patient enough to deal with my lack of survival skills.
When discussing C.P.M., in addition to the lack of survival benefit, there are the significant risks of the surgery itself to be considered.
It is believed that the Norman rolls were started about the same time as the English, but due to lack of survival of the earlier Norman rolls, it is unclear exactly when they did start.
There are potentially several reasons for the lack of survival of the overwhelming majority of the P-element lines.
