The failure to find a predictive relationship between long-term exposure history at the WTC site and performance on chemosensory function tests was surprising.
Patients were randomised 2 : 1 to receive lapatinib (1500 mg d−1) or placebo, and stratified by tumour site and performance status.
Additionally, imbalances in prognostic variables favoring the control group, including disease site and performance status, could have affected the primary outcome results.
The names of the shows, sites and performance times are to be announced on Wednesday.
We showed that albumin, number of metastatic sites and performance status are independent predictors of 90DM.
aModels adjusted for the effects of PAM50 status, visceral disease, stage of disease, number of metastatic sites, and performance status.
Our findings demonstrate that a simple objective risk score consisting of albumin, number of metastatic sites and performance status, can be useful to assist in identifying patients enrolled on PIT who are at a greater risk of early death.
Although patients were not randomized between those who received trastuzumab and those who did not receive trastuzumab in this retrospective analysis, patient characteristics such as number of brain metastases, extracranial metastatic sites, and performance status were balanced between the two groups of HER2+ patients.
Meta-analyses on patients receiving IL-2-based immunotherapy have identified independent prognostic factors of survival such as serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), number of metastatic sites and performance status (Eton et al, 1998; Keilholz et al, 1998, 2002; Manola et al, 2000).
"General site design and performance -- how fast it takes to load -- will color the brand," Mr. Moon said.
The site is usually among the Internet's best performers; its main page, yahoo.com, is accessible 99.3percentt of the time, according to Keynote Systems, which monitors Web site reliability and performance.
