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P values
The only p-value given was for distant disease free survival, but it would meet a standard 5% cutoff. P equalled .029 for adding herceptin to taxotere, so there was less than a 3% chance that the increase in distant disease free survival was a fluke.
You're right, Debbie, it was probably a journalist's interpretation of the abstract, which explains some of the weirdness of it. If that was the case, the lack of confidence intervals might just be down to a tight deadline. I would hope that a medical professional would pay more attention to confidence intervals. Well, at least someone bothered to write about the results for this trial, so we should be thankful for that.
In my experience, Europe generally just tends to be more secretive about things than America is, which may help to explain why the abstracts are not more freely available. Of course, St Gallen is in Switzerland, which has a reputation for being especially secretive.
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