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Hopeful · 10-26-2007, 06:21 AM

Terri, here is a link to the abstract: http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/28/4414

"Residualcancer burden (RCB) was calculated as a continuous index combiningpathologic measurements of primary tumor (size and cellularity)and nodal metastases (number and size) for prediction of distantrelapse-free survival (DRFS) in multivariate Cox regressionanalyses."

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10-26-2007, 06:21 AM	#3
Hopeful Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 3,380	Terri, here is a link to the abstract: http://jco.ascopubs.org/cgi/content/abstract/25/28/4414 "Residualcancer burden (RCB) was calculated as a continuous index combiningpathologic measurements of primary tumor (size and cellularity)and nodal metastases (number and size) for prediction of distantrelapse-free survival (DRFS) in multivariate Cox regressionanalyses." Hopeful