Weshow that the supremumof the successive percentages of red balls in Pólya’s urnmodel is almost surely rational, give the set of values that are taken with positive probability, and derive several exact distributional results for the all-time maximal percentage.

(a) Molecularly-targeted drug treatment in 52 patients Molecular target drug n=52 Underlying malignancy Other drugs* 5(9.6) Malignancy 5 Note.—Numbers of the data are numbers of patients, with percentages in parentheses. emtansine for the treatment of colon cancer, lymphoma, lung cancer, multiple myeloma, and breast cancer, respectively. GIST = gastrointestinal stromal tumor, CML = chronic myel...

Medical tests, such as genetic tests and blood tests for various diseases or conditions, are far from infallible. A test can produce two kinds of errors: a false positive result (meaning that the test indicates presence of the disease when it is, in fact, not there) or a false negative result (meaning that the test indicates absence of the disease when it is in fact present). Thus, when you get...

The current study was conducted to investigate the effects of genetic and non-genetic factors on body weight and carcass traits of Japanese quails. Two strains of Japanese quail (150 wild quails and 150 white quails) were used as base population. Four mating groups were used to produce progenies: wild male × wild female, white male × wild female, wild male × white female and white male × white ...

Molecular subtypes and Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) are both prognostic models for breast cancer patients. We evaluated the association between molecular subtypes and NPI in 1042 breast cancer patients. The molecular subtypes indicating poorer prognosis were positively correlated to higher NPI (r = 0.138, P = 0.001). ER positive expression and PR high expression were positively correlated ...

background: full blood count has been shown to predict disease severity and mortality risk in cancer patients. this study aimed to highlight the degree of derangements of full blood count parameters and provide mean values in pre-chemotherapy breast cancer patients compared with apparently normal control subjects.methods: this was an unmatched case-control study among breast cancer patients att...