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4. Modelling Survival Data in Medical Research

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This article is published in Journal of The Royal Statistical Society Series A-statistics in Society.The article was published on 1995-01-01. It has received 1092 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Medical research.

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Child survival gains in Tanzania: analysis of data from demographic and health surveys

TL;DR: Tanzania could attain MDG 4 if this trend of improved child survival were to be sustained, and investment in health systems and scaling up interventions can produce rapid gains in child survival.
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Dental endosseous implant assessments in a type 2 diabetic population: a prospective study.

TL;DR: This study supports the use of dental implants in type 2 diabetic patients and finds only duration of diabetes and implant length to be statistically significant predictors of implant failure.
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"Successful aging": effect of subclinical cardiovascular disease.

TL;DR: There is a graded relationship between the extent of vascular disease measured noninvasively and the likelihood of maintaining intact health and function and prevention of subclinical vascular disease may increase the quality and the quantity of years in late life.
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Estrogen Receptor and Progesterone Receptor As Predictive Biomarkers of Response to Endocrine Therapy: A Prospectively Powered Pathology Study in the Tamoxifen and Exemestane Adjuvant Multinational Trial

TL;DR: Preference exemestane versus tamoxifen treatment benefit was not predicted by PgR expression; conversely, patients with ER-rich tumors may derive additional benefit from exemstane, and Quantitative analysis of ER and PGR expression provides highly significant information on risk of early relapse during treatment.
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Mineral Metabolism, Mortality, and Morbidity in Maintenance Hemodialysis

TL;DR: Hyperphosphatemia and hyperparathyroidism were significantly associated with all-cause, cardiovascular, and fracture-related hospitalization, and the population attributable risk percentage for disorders of mineral metabolism was 17.5%, owing largely to the high prevalence of hyperph phosphatemia.
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Overall Survival and Updated Results for Sunitinib Compared With Interferon Alfa in Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma

TL;DR: Sunitinib demonstrates longer overall survival compared with IFN-alpha plus improvement in response and progression-free survival in the first-line treatment of patients with metastatic RCC, highlighting an improved prognosis in patients with RCC in the era of targeted therapy.
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Survival and Prognostic Stratification of 670 Patients With Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma

TL;DR: Five prognostic factors for predicting survival were identified and used to categorize patients with metastatic RCC into three risk groups, for which the median survival times were separated by 6 months or more.