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Clinical and Radiologic Assessments to Predict Breast Cancer Pathologic Complete Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer, 2005-08)
To prospectively compare the ability of clinical examination, mammography, vascularity-sensitive ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to determine pathologic complete response (CR) in breast cancer patients ...
Prognostic Value of Bronchiolitis Obliterans Syndrome Stage 0-p in Single-Lung Transplant Recipients
(2005-08)
Rationale: Early diagnosis of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS)
is critical in understanding pathogenesis and devising therapeutic
trials. Although potential-BOS stage (BOS 0-p), encompassing early
changes in FEV1 ...
Beyond Urban Penalty and Urban Sprawl: Back to Living Conditions as the Focus of Urban Health
(2005)
Researchers have long studied urban health, both to
describe the consequences of urban living and to design interventions
to promote the health of people living in cities. Two approaches to
understanding the impact of ...
Urban built environment and depression: a multilevel analysis
(2005)
Study objective: To assess the relations between characteristics of the neighbourhood internal and external
built environment and past six month and lifetime depression.
Design and setting: Depression and sociodemographic ...
Effects of Race, Neighborhood, and Social Network on Age at Initiation of Injection Drug Use
(2005)
Objectives. We investigated individual- and neighborhood-level factors associated
with adolescent initiation of injection drug use.
Methods. Injection drug users (IDUs) who had been injecting 2 to 5 years underwent
HIV ...
Low Allele Frequency of MLH1 D132H in American Colorectal and Endometrial Cancer Patients
(Springer-Verlag; The American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, 2005-09)
Hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer is caused by mutations in DNA mismatch repair genes, predominantly MLH1 and MSH2 . Classic MLH1 mutations cause an approximately 20-fold increase in colorectal cancer susceptibility. ...
Variance estimation for clustered recurrent event data with a small number of clusters
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2005-10-15)
Often in biomedical studies, the event of interest is recurrent and within-subject events cannot usually be assumed independent. In semi-parametric estimation of the proportional rates model, a working independence assumption ...