malignant pleural mesothelioma patient selection for pleurectomy

... histologic subtype in 121 patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma Lung Cancer 2001, 34:279-287 Aziz T, Jilaihawi A, Prakash D: The management of malignant pleural mesothelioma; single centre ... OE: Malignant pleural mesothelioma: a survival study J Surg Oncol 1990, 45:40-42 Ellis P, Davies AM, Evans WK, Haynes AE, Lloyd NS: The use of chemotherapy in patients with advanced malignant pleural ... chronic occupational exposure against asbestos fibres [6] Overall, the prognosis for patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is poor Accordingly, several studies reported consistently...

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... Capaccio A, et al.: Malignant pleural mesothelioma Multivariate analysis of prognostic factors on 113 patients Anticancer Research 1993, 13:683-689 Kindler HL: Systemic Treatments for Mesothelioma: ... for chemonaïve patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma: results of the International Expanded Access Program J Thorac Oncol 2008, 3(7):756-63 Edstrom L, Dawson P, Kohler J, DeMester T: Malignant ... known fact that malignant cells may loose some of there differentiation when metastasis Systemic therapy is the only treatment option for the majority of mesothelioma patients For many years,...

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... resection for malignant pleural mesothelioma Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2004, 128:138-146 Rusch VW, Piantadosi S, Holmes EC: The role of extrapleural pneumonectomy in malignant pleural mesothelioma: ... imaging for staging of limited pleural meothelioma Invest Radiol 2008, 43:737-744 International Mesothelioma Interest Group: A proposed new international TNM staging system for malignant pleural mesothelioma ... follow-up of malignant pleural mesothelioma J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1988, 96:171-7 Heelan RT, Rusch VW, Begg CB, Panicek DM, Caravelli JF, Eisen C: Staging of malignant pleural mesothelioma: ...

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... tumor The lesion was histologically diagnosed as epithelioid-type malignant pleural mesothelioma (B) The median survival times for patients with an unresectable or postsurgical recurrent MPM are ... the survival rate In this patient, although an extrapleural pneumonectomy was initially selected as the first step, only a cytoreduction pleurectomy was performed Therefore, postoperative treatment ... cellmediated immunity in the patients with malignant tumors Zhen Ci Yan Jiu 1995, 20:67-71 Schwarzenberger P, Byrne P, Kolls JK: Immunotherapy-based treatment strategies for malignant mesothelioma Curr...

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... informed consent was obtained from all eligible patients Results From September 2004 to October 2009, 400 patients underwent video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) for recurrent malignant pleural ... slurry for symptomatic malignant pleural effusion Ann Thorac Surg 1996, 62:1655-1658 Bernard A, de Dompsure RB, Hagry A, Favre JP: Early and late mortality after pleurodesis for malignant pleural ... breast cancer, followed by ovarian cancer, lymphoma and pleural mesothelioma Three hundred and forty patients (340/400 - 85%) had a lasting pleural symphysis until death or the date of last follow...

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... scenario for identifying biomarkers for clinical use is to use samples obtained from patients undergoing therapy with the investigational drug and to analyze gene expression data in the context of patient ... independent assays were performed for each cell line The mean ± standard deviation was calculated except for cell lines that were highly resistant to the compound, for which accurate IC50 values ... Rationale for patient stratification in dasatinib prostate cancer trials Based on their differential expression, we reasoned that CK5, PSA, and AR could serve as predictive biomarkers for identification...

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... networks maintain only approximate and minimal topology information, and therefore designing a center selection heuristics require more precise information than what is available The median of a tree ... most desirable scheme is that the core selection procedure is based on local topology information, which let information easily gathered at each node This core selection strategy is based on the ... Language Peer-to-MANET Protocol Independent Multicast Protocol for unified multicasting through announcement Requests for Comments Reverse Path Forwarding Sparse Mode Shortest Path First Shortest Path...

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... This document is for intended for network design architects and support engineers who are responsible for planning, designing, implementing, and operating networks Chapter 1—Site Selection Overview ... data and its full recovery and availability for use For example, if data from a sales order is lost, it represents a loss for the business unless the information is recovered and processed in time ... past, applications were tailored for a specific operating system or hardware platform It is common today for organizations to migrate legacy applications to newer platforms and systems that follow...

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... the main cause for the increase of pollutants in the atmosphere over the last three centuries Before 1950, the majority of this pollution was created from the burning of coal for energy generation, ... the eyes, causing them to water and sting 2.1 Condition for photochemical smog development of Certain conditions are required for the formation of photochemical smog These conditions include: ... daily variation in the key chemical factors in photochemical smog formation 171 Fig Generalized reaction scheme for photochemical smog formation (source: [3]) Based on the graphs in Fig 1, some suggestions...

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... search It can be used, for instance, for forward feature selection (progressively adding features), a strategy recently used, for example, in (Smola, 2000) VI.4 Other SVM feature selection methods ... composition and mentions “smooth muscle” in its description ranks for the baseline method, for LDA, for MSE and only 41 for SVM Therefore, this is an indication that SVMs might make a better use ... to a single experiment for SVM For MSE, the dashed and solid lines overlap For LDA we could not compute the dashed line, for computational reasons The baseline method performs slightly better...

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... for verbs V l , , Vm, respectively: Initially, for each verb vi, set ~ as the most general one `sis of the sequence `sio, , `sire For each verb vi, from the sequence `sn, , `sire, search for ... number of the active feature set is 126 for "Generalto-Specific" method and 800 for "One-by-one Feature Adding" method Therefore, general-tospecific feature selection algorithm achieves significant ... e q u i r e m e n t s Subsumption with s: for each element fs' of DI , s' has to be subsumed by s Upper Bound of ~: for each element fs, of DI, , and for each element ft of G, t does not subsume...

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... Data point selection The key idea in our experiments is that we can use a simple form of instance weighting, similar to what is often used for correcting sample selection bias or for domain adaptation, ... (2008) For our main results, which are presented in Figure 1, we use the remaining three treebanks as training material for each language The test section of the language in question is used for ... obtain the best results for Arabic training using labeled data from the Bulgarian treebank, and the best results for Bulgarian training on Portuguese only The best results for Danish were, somewhat...

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... coefficient and mutual information (Rogati and Yang, 2002) reported that chi-squared feature selection is the most effective method for text classification Following this information, we use χ2 values ... 215–224 M Rogati and Y Yang 2002 High-performing Feature Selection for Text Classification In Proc of the 2002 ACM CIKM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pages ... NUMEX, ORGANIZATION, and TIME TOP for JQA, and “coarse” and “fine” classes for EQC We used the one-vs-rest classifier of SVM as the multi-class classification method for EQC Figure shows examples of...

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... weights improves performance for both target languages 3.1 space than used in this work Another aspect investigated is using our selective sampling for adapting the learning process for data originating ... using an active sample selection scheme The sample selection process is guided by the Sufficient Spanning Features criterion (SSF) introduced in section 2.2, to identify informative samples in the ... training and training with weights The results clearly show that using weights for training improve the classifier’s performance for both Russian and Hebrew It can also be observed that in many cases...

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... newly diagnosed GBM patients The EGFRviii variant of EGFR is expressed by nearly a third of glioma specimens [32] therefore the patients enrolled must exhibit positivity for the antigen The vaccine ... mRNA for the CC chemokine receptor (CCR7) in an effort to direct the CMV-specific DC to Page of 10 the lymph nodes Upon recurrence, biopsies will be evaluated for DC or CTL infiltrates, and for ... comparative assessments between individual trials The patient populations treated must be segregated into uniform groups for data analysis For valid statistical conclusions to be reached one cannot...

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... be expected for useful reference genes and a high SD for genes that are susceptible to virus replication Corresponding to the recent estimation the SD of the CT value was highest for Act in of ... the manufacturer's recommendations for oligo(dT)20 primed cDNA-synthesis cDNA synthesis was performed using µg of RNA, at 50°C Finally, cDNA was diluted 1:5 before use in QPCR Quantitative TaqMan ... standards for quantifying RNA levels under hypoxia Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999, 259:523-526 Radonic A, Thulke S, Mackay IM, Landt O, Siegert W, Nitsche A: Guideline to reference gene selection for...

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... compressive forces were reached for moving a patient towards the bed’s head (no 3) In most cases, higher values were found for positioning a more passive patient than moving a more active patient ... particular the posture of the healthcare worker and the forces brought forward to the patient This information regarding posture and action force was therefore also necessary to carry out the biomechanical ... postures of the caregiver and patient for the 13 studied manual patient handling activities: Raising a patient from lying to sitting in bed or vice versa Elevating a patient from lying to sitting...

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... be expected for useful reference genes and a high SD for genes that are susceptible to virus replication Corresponding to the recent estimation the SD of the CT value was highest for Act in of ... the manufacturer's recommendations for oligo(dT)20 primed cDNA-synthesis cDNA synthesis was performed using µg of RNA, at 50°C Finally, cDNA was diluted 1:5 before use in QPCR Quantitative TaqMan ... standards for quantifying RNA levels under hypoxia Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1999, 259:523-526 Radonic A, Thulke S, Mackay IM, Landt O, Siegert W, Nitsche A: Guideline to reference gene selection for...

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... editors were informed that the survey was confidential and that their responses would be anonymised The questionnaire design was based on a validated questionnaire designed by Radford et al to ... specifically for each journal that he edited Each journals’ website was also examined to determine the demographics of editors and journals that had not responded Journal impact factors for 2008 ... compared to non-responders using a Students t test A post hoc analysis of error level for completed surveys was also performed (survey sample random calculator, http://www.custominsight.com) Page of...

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