The improvement in 5-year relative survival was greatest for cases with distant metastases when conditional on increasing years already survived whereas the impact on early stage cancers was much smaller.
Overall, 5-year relative survival tended to increase when conditional on increasing years after diagnosis and the greatest changes in CS occurred for cancers with poor prognosis at diagnosis for example, patients with aggressive cancers or those with advanced stage or at older age.
"Any increase in the UK's official development assistance to Pakistan must be conditional on Pakistan increasing its tax collection and widening the tax base," it said in a report published today.
But payments conditional on stock increase cattle production while payments conditional on stock-change have no effect on production.
While making monetary incentives conditional on performance increased effort (that is, people were more likely to submit three additional slogans when the bonus was tied to outcome than when it was just given), making charitable incentives conditional backfired.
In Washington, President Gerald R. Ford was making federal aid to New York conditional on an increase in transit fares and the end of rent control and free tuition at the city colleges -- what became known as the "Ford to New York: Drop Dead" speech.
This result arises because in the altruistic model, conditional on remitting, an increase in the recipient's income together with an equal decrease in the donor's income unambiguously causes a decrease in the same amount in the transfer paid to the recipient.
For instance, for influenza, while the risk of infection is typically higher among children, the risks of disease and death conditional on infection generally increase with age, except for the very young (31).
He called on president Barack Obama to deliver a balanced budget next week, "one that includes entitlement reforms that are not conditional on enactment of more tax increases, which will suppress growth instead of encourage it".
Conditional on eventual fixation, the error increases as the initial frequency increases, demonstrating that it is the observations at intermediate allele frequencies that give us precision in our estimates.
