In the case of systemic therapy for non-small cell lung cancer, the median survival improvement with first-line chemotherapy is approximately 2 months, although up to 70% of patients may have symptom improvement (Lopez et al, 1997).
For our programs, we also found it helpful to talk with the presenter and get their feedback about how the workshop went--what worked and what didn't--and any suggestions they may have for improvement.
Also, patients may have reported improvement in order to please their physician.
It is believed that about 34%% of patients with idiopathic carpal tunnel syndrome may have spontaneous improvement [ 13].
Alternatively, it is possible that participants may have experienced improvement in one or more role areas (e.g., parental role) that may be related to treatment outcome, but overall changes in social adjustment did not mediate treatment effects.
However, a fraction of EGFR wild-type (WT) patients may have an improvement in terms of response rate and progression-free survival when treated with erlotinib, suggesting that factors other than EGFR mutation may lead to TKI sensitivity.
For example, women who have return of menses but do not ovulate, as evidenced by lack of luteal progesterone surge, may have less improvement in bone turnover and sexual side effects.
While the intervention was not associated with a reduction in BP, intervention subjects were on more antihypertensive medications at the end of the study; longer follow-up may have demonstrated improvement in BP control.
In some cases, an improvement in behavior was noted by the family, but this may have reflected improvements in general health and quality of life resulting from somatic improvements.
From the above inequalities one can see that the order of (L_{n}^{mathrm{ch}}) may have some improvements for some conditional quasi-greedy bases.
