However, we also found that neither CT nor FDG PET/CT could obviate the need for further invasive staging prior to thoracotomy in patients with NSCLC; for that purpose, the results of both modalities were too meagre.
The study argued that efficiency measures alone could obviate the need for building 610 of the 1,300 plants.
If the increased crop yields and soil remediation outweigh any increased cost in production, that could obviate the need for governments to mandate its use for security reasons.
We highlight Britain's growing appreciation of the merits of high-speed rail, which, according to the opposition Tory party, "could obviate the need for the unpopular and ungreen third runway planned for Heathrow airport".Andrew Adonis, the minister in charge of railways, has also backed high-speed trains in the January issue of Prospect, a current-affairs magazine.
Efraim Halevy, who has served as both national security adviser and chief of the Mossad intelligence agency, made a similar point in a recent opinion article, saying that close international attention to Syria could obviate any need for a much riskier military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
In September Theresa Villiers, the Tory shadow transport secretary, claimed that a fast railway connecting London with Leeds by way of Birmingham and Manchester could obviate the need for the unpopular and ungreen third runway planned for Heathrow airport.Now an even more surprising change of heart has occurred within the Labour government.
Transfer of TCR genes into younger T cells from peripheral blood with a high proliferative potential could obviate this problem.
In vitro tests could obviate the need for or at least reduce the number of patients who might be put at risk in potentially dangerous clinical studies.
Subcutaneous ovarian transplantation may restore ovarian function and could obviate many of the problems that are related to ovarian banking for humans.
Last month, in a white paper, Paulson said that lower corporate taxes and a simpler system could obviate the need for the research credit.
