Mr. Digby's organization, the Event Safety Alliance, is pushing the outdoor concert industry to adopt national standards not only for stage construction but also for emergency procedures during bad weather and other crises.
Kaplan-Meier curves were plotted using Prism (GraphPad Software, San Diego California USA, www.graphpad.com) based on survival data, comparing the highest versus lowest tertile for VDAC1, initially these plots were produced for all data and then only for stage I. Hazard ratios comparing low and high VDAC1 expressing samples were calculated.
Liver biopsy remains a useful diagnostic tool not only for staging, but also for diagnostic purposes.
GLYCOV was able to recognize stage I EOC whereas CA125 values were statistically significant only for stage II EOC patients.
Only for stage III disease did elderly patients fare worse, probably as a result of less extensive adjuvant treatment.
This was seen for all stages of disease except stage II, but the reduction in the HR reached statistical significance only for stage III disease (HR=0.61, 95% CI 0.42 0.91).
Liver imaging is used not only for staging cancer patients, but also for assessment of response to treatment, for re-staging after treatment or with suspected recurrence, and for surveillance during remission.
If 25% of patients with cutaneous malignant melanoma who are clinically stage I have nodal disease, this has great importance not only for staging and treatment but also for all future therapeutic trials.
Regression analyses of all breast cancer cases evaluating the contributory role of age, menopausal status, tumor grade, stage and ER/PR status in predicting the BRCA1-3'UTR-variant was significant only for stage (Table 1).
When the analysis was conducted by tumor stage, univariate analysis demonstrated longer OS only for stage I patients who received NSAIDs compared with those not treated with these analgesics (P = 0.03) (Fig. 1).
