The evidence to support the shorter duration of chemotherapy compared with the longer standard duration is, however, unreliable for younger patients and for those with ER-negative disease, and the longer duration treatment might be beneficial for these cohorts.
It is no longer standard to use biological data for collecting data on drug use (e.g. [ 17, 30]), and a number of studies have indicated that biological verification underestimates substance use and does not provide more valid data than self-reporting (e.g. [ 12, 51, 52]).
Preparations are also being made for the "overwhelming majority" of patients waiting longer than standard for a clinic appointment in some specialities to be seen by external providers.
Suddenly American tire technology no longer set standards for the world.
"But once the facilities are modified, there is a danger that they will no longer be international standard for football.
"Chloride is salt water intrusion, meaning that ocean water has invaded the aquifer to such an extent that the water no longer meets the standard for drinkability because of the high chloride level," she said.
In 1789, Noah Webster pushed for the reformation of spelling and vocabulary, writing that "Great Britain, whose children we are, and whose language we speak, should no longer be our standard; for the taste of her writers is already corrupted, and her language on the decline".
Only 1% of all bacteria can be cultured in the laboratory [13], so culture is no longer the gold standard for the diagnosis of infections.
Conventional Sanger sequencing is perhaps no longer the gold standard for accurately sequencing small segments of genome.
It no longer meets the official standard for a political party, which requires at least 12 seats.
