In the present study, we did not examine the effect of fixative type on FISH results, because, for gastric cancer, IHC testing is recommended as a first examination for HER2, followed by confirmative testing by FISH for IHC score 2+ specimens.
In particular, children with PF for hematopoietic tumours received a first examination at younger ages than children with no PF, and those predisposed to CNS tumours received higher cumulative brain doses.
Each film was digitized, and the films were randomized for a second examination.
Some protocols call for a second examination, performed after a variable interval.
Approximately 2 years later (October 1993 January 1995), the same women were invited for a second examination.
Participants of the baseline examination (n = 9,651) were invited in 2002 (n = 8,047) for a second examination.
Two members of Control Group I returned for a second examination (33%), while 10 (62.5%) and 5 (31.3%) participants in Control Group III underwent second and third examinations, respectively.
The 10 day reproducibility of the PD100Rint, EI was investigated by randomly asking 39 subjects to come again after one week for a second examination.
About one and half years later, we mailed and/or made telephone calls to these same students, inviting them for a second examination.
Regardless of the outcome of the triage, all participants subsequently visited the ENT-specialist and AC for a second examination (ENT/AC-examination), to evaluate whether the dispenser had correctly defined the participant as patient or client.
