… 1 h. Patients given the conventional regimen also received paclitaxel, 180 mg/m 2 on day
1, given as a 3 h intravenous infusion. In the dose-dense group, paclitaxel was given as a 1 h …

In field reliability analyses, a data collection period is given to monitor the failure events
from the field. Left‐truncation arises due to early failures occurring before the data collection …

Background Platinum-based two-drug combination chemotherapy has been standard of
care for patients with advanced nonsmall-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The primary aim was to …

… We did not use other PCR primers specific for H. felis and H. salomonis because we could
not get good specificity with the reference genomes mentioned above. Primer sequences and …

Objective The concept of “platinum sensitivity” has been widely applied in the management
of recurrent ovarian cancer. This study aimed to evaluate the applicability of this concept to …

Developing a personalized risk prediction model of death is fundamental for improving
patient care and touches on the realm of personalized medicine. The increasing availability of …

Importance The efficacy of taxane plus platinum regimens has been demonstrated for
advanced or recurrent endometrial cancer; however, it has not been assessed in postoperative …

Survival and reliability analyses deal with incomplete failure time data, such as censored and
truncated data. Recently, the classical left-truncation scheme was generalized to analyze “…

… For a patient alive at t with his/her tumor status H ( t , X ) and covariates Z , the survival
outcome I ( D > t + w ) is calibrated by S ^ ( t , t + w | H ( t , X ) , Z ) = 1 − F ^ ( t , t + w | H ( t , X ) , Z ) . …

… retardatus in its natural habitat) from 0900 h to 1200 h daily. They were always given … ,
approximately 5–6 days) in H. retardatus larvae (Michimae and Wakahara 2001), we considered …