Despite the fact that LOH studies come with both technical and theoretical challenges, we were able to address some of those challenges by using a new quantitative technique to assess a combination of allelic statuses and by limiting our analysis to a more homogenous group of tumors, adjuvant therapy naïve, lymph-node negative IDCs.
This pattern is best explained by a combination of socioeconomic status, land-cover, and location.
Sandy Robinson, an accountant from Goodlettsville, Tenn., says a combination of mileage status, sound logic and above all, politeness can land her a first-class seat, a lounge pass or a free ticket change.
Sample size is the number of cells (a cell is a combination of nationality status: either UK or Non-UK, age band and borough).
A limitation that is intrinsic to the current version of the aR scale is the measuring of a combination of trait status.
Stage of sexual maturation in the girls was determined on the basis of a combination of menarcheal status and breast and pubic hair development [ 36].
We previously described two models with good prognostic value based on a combination of Performance Status (PS) and either lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) level or lymphocyte count.
To accommodate these changes we used a combination of nodal status (1-3, >3) and RT on the axilla (no, yes) to stratify all analyses.
Even when we used pack-years as a continuous variable or a combination of smoking status (never, former, current), number of cigarettes smoked per day and number of years smoked, the risk estimates were similar with each respective model.
A composite measure of SES, used in many TEDS publications (Pike, Iervolino, Eley, Price, & Plomin, 2006), was based on a combination of occupational status and education for both parents.
We hypothesised that in the near future a combination of LVSI status with existing clinico-histopathological features may become an important surrogate risk marker and determinant to better adapt adjuvant therapies in patients with early-stage EC.
