PURPOSE To evaluate the direct anti-cancer effect of a single instillation of epirubicin (SIE) after transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) for non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) by analysis of immediate urine cytology (IUC). MATERIALS AND METHODS We reviewed the records of 158 patients who had IUC after TURBT for NMIBC. Fifty-six patients were treated with SIE after TURBT a...

The prognosis of patients with mixed subtype thyroid cancer (MSTC) is unclear. The present study compared the prognoses of MSTC, papillary thyroid cancer (PTC), and follicular thyroid cancer (FTC) to provide a new perspective regarding the treatment guidelines for these diseases. We evaluated data from patients with thyroid cancer who were included in the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Res...

This study aims to determine the model of Acute Myocardial Infarction using Weibull Regression and Cox Proportional Hazard methods factors that significantly influence length time for recovery acute myocardial infarction patients. The results this indicate patients are age, onset, number secondary diagnoses duration pain. Based on AIC value, regression is best because value smaller, namely 292....

A variety of statistical methods are available to investigators for analysis of time-to-event data, often referred to as survival analysis. Kaplan-Meier estimation and Cox proportional hazards regression are commonly employed tools but are not appropriate for all studies, particularly in the presence of competing risks and when multiple or recurrent outcomes are of interest. Markov chain models...

BACKGROUND In patients with acquired heart failure, hypoalbuminaemia is associated with increased risk of death. The prevalence of hypoproteinaemia and hypoalbuminaemia and their relation to outcome in adult patients with congenital heart disease (ACHD) remains, however, unknown. METHODS Data on patients with ACHD who underwent blood testing in our centre within the last 14 years were collect...

Most existing copula models for dependent censoring in the literature assume that parameter defining is known. However, prior knowledge on this dependence often unavailable. In article we propose a novel model under which does not need to be The based parametric relation between survival time (T) and (C), whereas marginal distributions of T C follow semiparametric Cox proportional hazards model...

BACKGROUND AHNAK nucleoprotein 2 (AHNAK2) belongs to the AHNAK protein family. The studies of AHNAK2 are limited. A recent study reported that AHNAK2 might be a biomarker for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC); however, tissue-based experiments have not been conducted. The aim of this study was to determine the tissue expression of AHNAK2 and to find the correlation between AHNAK2 and over...

Our knowledge of mortality risks comes largely from longitudinal (cohort) studies. The most commonly used analytic tool is the Cox proportional hazards model for survival analysis. An alternative approach is a simple cross-sectional analysis of person-years. The key to the method is logistic regression, where the outcome variable is lived/died in the given year and the explanatory variables are...