Browsing by Subject "Multivariate analysis"
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Cyclophosphamide, mitoxantrone, fluorouracil versus conventional CMF as adjuvant treatment in node-positive breast cancer patients
(1996)362 evaluable node-positive patients with stage II breast cancer were randomized, receiving either 6 cycles of conventional CMF or 6 cycles of the combination of cyclophosphamide (500 mg/m2), mitoxantrone (Novantrone 10 ...
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Diffuse large cell lymphomas: Identification of prognostic factors and validation of the international non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Prognostic Index
(1998)Several clinical prognostic factors have been identified that predict treatment outcome in patients with diffuse large cell lymphomas. An International Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Prognostic Index (IPI) has been recently ...
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Fuzzy modeling of freeway accident duration with rainfall and traffic flow interactions
(2015)Abstract Accident duration modeling has been considered as a difficult problem due to the variety of information (accident characteristics, traffic and weather information, geometry of the accident location and so on) that ...
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High levels of topoisomerase IIα protein expression in diffuse large B-cell lymphoma are associated with high proliferation, germinal center immunophenotype, and response to treatment
(2010)Gene copy number and protein expression of topoisomerase IIα were correlated to benefit from anthracyclines in various tumors. A retrospective series of 69 patients with DLBCL managed with CHOP chemotherapy were studied ...
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HIV/HBV co-infection and rate of antiretroviral treatment change after highly active antiretroviral treatment initiation in a cohort of HIV-infected patients in Greece
(2010)The current study investigated the impact of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/hepatitis B virus (HBV) co-infection on the rate of change of antiretroviral drugs after the initiation of highly active antiretroviral treatment ...
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Improved outcome of high-risk early HER2 positive breast cancer with high CXCL13-CXCR5 messenger RNA expression
(2012)Background: Chemokines are important in cell migration and are thought to play a key role in metastasis. We explored the prognostic significance of C-X-C ligand-motif (CXCL) 12, CXCL13, and receptor (CXCR) 5 on disease-free ...
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Increasing prevalence of HIV-1 subtype a in Greece: Estimating epidemic history and origin
(2007)Background. In North America and Europe, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-1 infection has typically been dominated by subtype B transmission. More recently, however, non-B subtypes have been increasingly reported in ...
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Liver metastases from cancer of unknown primary (CUPL): A retrospective analysis of presentation, management and prognosis in 49 patients and systematic review of the literature
(2008)Aim: Patients with liver metastases from cancer of unknown primary (CUPL) have a dismal prognosis. We retrospectively analysed their management and outcome and performed a systematic review of CUPL series published in the ...
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Metabolic syndrome and its components as predictors of ischemic stroke in type 2 diabetic patients
(2008)BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE - The available data regarding the association between metabolic syndrome (MS) or MS components and ischemic stroke in type 2 diabetics are limited and inconsistent. This study aimed to investigate ...
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Primary extranodal non Hodgkin's lymphoma of the head and neck in adults: A clinicopathological comparison between tonsillar and non tonsillar lymphomas
(1998)Primary extranodal NHL of the head and neck (HN-NHL) accounts for 10-20% of all cases of NHL. Despite their frequency, the natural history and biological behaviour of these lymphomas is poorly understood. In this study we ...
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Profiling immunohistochemical expression of NOTCH1-3, JAGGED1, cMET, and phospho-MAPK in 100 carcinomas of unknown primary
(2012)Cancer of unknown primary (CUP) is a heterogeneous entity, managed on the basis of "one size fits all" therapeutic concepts; insights into the molecular biology of CUP are urgently needed. We retrospectively examined the ...
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Prognosis of pregnancy-associated breast cancer: A meta-analysis of 30 studies
(2012)Background: Pregnancy-associated breast cancer (PABC) is relatively rare with considerable controversy regarding its prognosis. Patients & methods: Two of the authors independently performed a literature search with no ...
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Prognostic factors in Greek patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC). A Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group study
(2002)Background: Prognostic factors among Greek patients with SCLC were evaluated. Patients and Methods: Data from 516 patients with SCLC treated by the Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group were analyzed. Multivariate analysis ...
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Prognostic significance of RACGAP1 mRNA expression in high-risk early breast cancer: A study in primary tumors of breast cancer patients participating in a randomized Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group trial
(2013)Purpose: RACGAP1 is a Rac GTPase-activating protein involved in cell growth regulation, cell transformation and metastasis. The aim of the present study was to explore the prognostic and/or predictive significance of RACGAP1 ...
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Prognostic significance of UBE2C mRNA expression in high-risk early breast cancer. A hellenic cooperative oncology group (HECOG) study
(2012)Background: The ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) plays a pivotal role in tumorigenesis. Components of the UPS have recently been implicated in breast cancer progression. In the present study, we sought to explore the ...
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Prognostic utility of β-tubulin isotype III and correlations with other molecular and clinicopathological variables in patients with early breast cancer: A translational Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG) study
(2011)We evaluated the prognostic and predictive utility of β-tubulin isotype III (TUBB3) tumour gene transcription in early breast cancer patients enrolled in a randomised study. Quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase ...
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Prognostic variables in Greek patients with stage II breast cancer: A Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group Study
(1997)The independent effects of several patient, tumor and treatment-related prognostic factors on relapse-free survival (RFS) and overall survival (OS) were assessed by Cox multivariate regression analysis in 988 Greek patients ...
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Triple-negative phenotype is of adverse prognostic value in patients treated with dose-dense sequential adjuvant chemotherapy: A translational research analysis in the context of a Hellenic Cooperative Oncology Group (HeCOG) randomized phase III trial
(2012)Purpose: It is well recognized that breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease. The purpose of the current study was to classify patients according to the immunohistochemical phenotype of their tumors in an effort to evaluate ...