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Flexible modeling improves assessment of prognostic value of C-reactive protein in advanced non-small cell lung cancer

BACKGROUND: C-reactive protein (CRP) is gaining credibility as a prognostic factor in different cancers. Cox's proportional hazard (PH) model is usually used to assess prognostic factors. However, this model imposes a priori assumptions, which are rarely tested, that (1) the hazard ratio associ...

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Autores principales: Gagnon, B, Abrahamowicz, M, Xiao, Y, Beauchamp, M-E, MacDonald, N, Kasymjanova, G, Kreisman, H, Small, D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2853092/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20234363
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6605603