Background: the aim of this study was to investigate the prognostic value of 18Fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (18F-FDG PET/CT) parameters in both overall survival and progression-free survival in Stage I-III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). Materials and Methods: In this retrospective study, 267 patients who were diagnosed as Stage I-III non-smal...

BACKGROUND Death is uncommon in thyroid cancer patients, and the factors important in predicting survival remain inadequately studied. The objective of this study was to assess prognostic effects of patient, tumor, and treatment factors and to determine prognostic groups for thyroid cancer survival. METHODS Using data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program (SEER), we eva...

During its 330 years of history, parametric distributions have been useful for survival and reliability analyses. In this paper, we comprehensively review the historical backgrounds statistical properties a number used in We provide encyclopedic coverage important distributions, which is more extensive than existing textbooks on also explain how these adopted analyses with original state-of-the...