At CT scan, they had either an increase in tumour size or very modest tumour shrinkage.
Despite the successful introduction of potent anti-cancer therapeutics, most of these drugs lead to only modest tumor-shrinkage or transient responses, followed by re-growth of tumors.
It said: The incoming chief executive's need to improve capital ratios leads us to halve our dividend per share forecast as well as move from modest loan growth to shrinkage.
Modest, short-lived tumour shrinkage of <10% was observed in one patient.
However, despite significant improvement in median PFS demonstrated in the largest clinical trial to date, tumor shrinkage has remained modest.
Testosterone administration had a modest protective effect by offsetting SG shrinkage, reducing cleaved capase-3 induction, promoting SG AR activity and increasing FASN expression.
But shrinkage in China's current-account surplus, notwithstanding the modest trade surplus in March, is making it harder for the I.M.F. and others to press for China to allow further appreciation of the renminbi, Mr. Prasad said.
And at the very bottom of the growth league, Japan's economy should see a smaller rate of shrinkage in 1999 than in 1998, before at last chalking up modest growth (0.3%, thinks the IMF) in 2000.In this section COMMODITY PRICE INDEX THE WORLD ECONOMY PRICES AND WAGES OUTPUT, DEMAND AND JOBS Reprints.
Shrinkage has its positive side.
"Mould damage, shrinkage," he says.
