Gastric cancer (GC) is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the world. A 2005 analysis of the global incidence and cancer-related mortality revealed that 934,000 new cases of GC were diagnosed and approximately 700,000 patients died from this disease in 2002 (Parkin et al., 2005). Approximately 60% of all cases occur in developing countries with ...

In this article, the authors consider a semiparametric additive hazards regression model for right-censored data that allows some censoring indicators to be missing at random. They develop a class of estimating equations and use an inverse probability weighted approach to estimate the regression parameters. Nonparametric smoothing techniques are employed to estimate the probability of non-missi...

conclusions the present study detected more accurate results for ann method compared to those of cox ph model to analyze the survival of patients with liver transplantation. furthermore, the order of effective factors in patients’ survival after transplantation was clinically more acceptable. the large dataset with a few missing data was the advantage of this study, the fact which makes the res...

Cancer is a significant public health topic and is frequently a factor in public reactions to environmental hazards. It may be reasonable to suggest that a unique form of health anxiety exists - one specific to cancer. In this article, we explore a measure of cancer anxiety that has applicability to risk perception in the specific context of communities that are alarmed over suspect cancer rate...

Four approaches to estimating a regression model for relative survival using the method of maximum likelihood are described and compared. The underlying model is an additive hazards model where the total hazard is written as the sum of the known baseline hazard and the excess hazard associated with a diagnosis of cancer. The excess hazards are assumed to be constant within pre-specified bands o...

in this research, 6517 records, collected by khojir sheep breeding station (tehran, iran), during 1991 to 2011 were used to estimate genetic parameters of lamb survival in zandi sheep. genetic parameters were estimated using 16 different models of animal model, sire and threshold models using reml procedures. the aic criterion was used to evaluate the models. the effects in the most suitable an...

Estimating treatment effects for survival outcomes in the high-dimensional setting is critical many biomedical applications and any application with censored observations. This article establishes an “orthogonal” score learning effects, using observational data a potentially large number of confounders. The estimator allows root-n, asymptotically valid confidence intervals, despite bias induced...

in this study, the effect of maternal additive genetic and environment on body weight at 6 weeks (bwt6w), breast width (hbrs), carcass weight (carcwt), breast weight (brswt), blood hematocrit value (hem), residual feed intake (rfi), daily feed intake (dfi) and average daily gain (adg) were investigated in a commercial broiler dam line. with and without maternal effects, six different animal mod...