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Finding parameters that might help identify those patients capable of benefiting from multimodal treatment modalities before the start of therapy would therefore be of considerable interest (Lerut et al, 1999; Ilson, 2004).

This was the price of successfully pioneering radiation therapy as a curative modality before the availability of effective chemotherapy.

A standard set of instructions lasting ~1 min was read to the participants for each different modality just before the beginning of each test, i.e. there were 1-min intervals between tests [10 13].

19 patients (43%) were solely treated with thymostimulin for the HCC with no other therapy modalities before or after study entry.

19 22 This stresses even more the importance of good non-surgical treatment modalities before implant surgery is encountered.

The management of shoulder OA typically begins with nonoperative modalities before surgery is considered.

In the future, it would be interesting to determine the responsiveness of the four instruments face-to-face in the same group of patients and using different treatment modalities, before making a clinical recommendation for longitudinal studies.

Other studies showed that the 6-min walking distance [ 3], but not constant exercise cycling test time[ 12], was reduced in obese patients with COPD compared to non-obese patients highlighting the importance of taking into account the exercise testing modality before concluding about the impact of obesity on exercise capacity in COPD.

The present study uses the Pk4 antigens to compare priming with three different vaccine modalities before poxvirus (Pox) boost: DNA plasmids, recombinant adenovirus 5 (Ad5) [21], [21], and recombinant alphavirus-derived viral replicon particles (VRPs) [20], [21].

However, additional efforts are still necessary to characterize additional CSC markers, and to further develop imaging probes and imaging modalities before a small population of CSCs may be monitored reliably and noninvasively in vivo.

They were generally heavily pretreated, having received a median of 8 non-chemotherapy, and 2 chemotherapy-based treatment modalities before being transplanted.