Sentence examples for unfavourable progression from inspiring English sources

To assess whether bFGF genotypes are associated with unfavourable progression of NHL, distributions of bFGF alleles and genotypes were compared among patients with different clinical characteristics and IPI.

Kallikrein-related peptidase 6 is expressed in ovarian cancer and appears to be an unfavourable progression biomarker in this malignancy (Anisowicz et al, 1996; Hoffman et al, 2002; Diamandis et al, 2003).

The authors also reported that high TβRII expression was associated with an unfavourable prognosis concerning progression-free survival.

Loss of p53 activity has been associated with tumour progression and unfavourable prognosis of the tumour (Symonds et al, 1994).

However, the increased expression of CDKN2a gene products alpha (p16INK4A) and beta (p14ARF) has been described to be associated with progression and unfavourable prognosis in different tumour types.

In this way, we wanted to assess the role of each of these candidate genes with regard to aggressive progression and unfavourable clinical outcome of HNSCC.

It is characterised by a heterogeneous clinical behaviour ranging from spontaneous regression in 10% of all cases to rapid progression with unfavourable prognosis [ 1, 2].

The block of neovascular growth lasted over 10 days from treatment suspension, and preformed vessels, which had regressed, remained dormant, suggesting the persistence of unfavourable conditions for capillary progression.

This is in concordance with correlation studies that suggest hsp's as unfavourable prognostic factors for progression in some types of cancer (Nylandsted et al, 2000a, 2000b; Lebret et al, 2003).

Depression has long been suspected as having an unfavourable effect on cancer progression, but the findings have remained contradictory (Kaplan and Reynolds, 1988; Garssen and Goodkin, 1999; Watson et al, 1999; Garssen, 2004).

Event-free survival (EFS) was defined as the interval between the date of the first endovesical instillation and the first unfavourable event, superficial disease, progression to infiltrating disease or the last visit.