Also, it is not readily feasible (with NAA, for example) to discriminate between tumour cells dying and normal tissues returning within the spectroscopic voxel.
In one case, the referral to community agencies component (for example to rehabilitation facilities) was not feasible as the person could not afford to travel to such places.
These questions stimulated queries about whether taking a different approach to screening delivery would make a programme based on FIT more feasible: for example, initially offering screening to a restricted age-group with gradual roll-out to incorporate the full age-range (as has been done in England in relation to the roll-out of the gFOBT-based screening programme).
We looked for counts of trial participants experiencing methodological problems or side effects, or numerical summaries of statistical findings: text statements that a procedure was feasible for example were not enough to qualify as a result.
If research showed that appropriate diagnosis were achievable with CT images that contain relatively higher noise levels, this would mean that dose reduction would be feasible; for example, allowing image noise to increase by a factor of 2 would imply that a dose reduction by a factor of 4 would be achieved.
A number of factors need to be considered in order for task-sharing to be acceptable and feasible, for example the incidence of distress experienced by the task-sharing workforce, their self-perceived level of competence, the acceptance of the workforce by other health care professionals and the incentives provided to ensure workforce retention.
It probably wouldn't be feasible, for example, for community college students, who tend to be transient and who generally have considerable family and work demands.
Specifically, the unexpected association of PDGFR phosphorylation in peripheral blood leukocytes with taxane efficacy requires prospective validation and these studies are planned in the phase III setting where larger sampling is feasible; for example, a sample size of 180 is required to confirm a HR of 2.3 for PFS with Pr(Decr-pPDGFR) >0.5 with a power of 0.82.
Cervical cancer is the second most common cancer in women worldwide (Parkin and Bray, 2006), with the majority of cases and deaths occurring in low-resource countries where organised screening has not been feasible, for example, nearly 20 000 women in Brazil are predicted to develop cervical cancer over the next year (Ferlay et al, 2004).
