Table of Contents Section of Bioengineering

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Department of Biomathematics

Section of Biostatistics

Recent Publications

  1. Abbruzzese, J.L., Abbruzzese, M.C., Hess, K.R. , Raber, M.N., Lenzi, R., and Frost, P., Unknown primary carcinoma: natural history and prognostic factors in 657 consecutive patients. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 12:1272-1280, 1994. (return to Consultations #5)
  2. Alexanian, R., Dimopoulos, M., Smith, T. , Delosalle, K., Barlogie, B., Champlin, R. Limited value of myeloablative therapy for late multiple myeloma. Blood, 83:512 6, 1994.
  3. Al-Sabbagh, R., Sinicrope, F. , Sallin, J., Shen, Y. , Roubsin, L. Evaluation of short-chain fatty acid enemas: treatment of radiation proctitis. American Journal of Gastroenterology , 91:1814-1816, 1996. (return to Consultations #25)
  4. Bandyk, M.G., Zhao, L., Troncoso, P. Pisters, L.L., Palmer, J.L. , von Eschenbach, A.C., Chung, L.W.K., and Liang, J.C. Trisomy 7: A potential cytogenetic marker of human prostate cancer progression. Genes, Chromosomes and Cancer, 9:19-27, 1994.
  5. Barnes, G., Romero, L., Hess, K.R. , and Curley, S.A. Primary adenocarcinoma of the duodenum: management and survival of 67 patients. Annals of Surgical Oncology, 1: 73-78, 1994.
  6. Bastarrachea, J., Hortobagyi, G.N., Smith, T.L. , Kau, S-W.C., Buzdar, A.U. Obesity: an adverse prognostic factor for patients undergoing adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer. Annals of Internal Medicine, in press.
  7. Benner, S.E., Lippman, S.M., Wargovich, M.J., Lee, J.J. , Velasco, M., Martin, J.W., Toth, B.B., and Hong, W.K. Micronuclei, a biomarker for chemoprevention of trials: Results of a randomized study in oral premalignancy. International Journal of Cancer, 59:457-459, 1994.
  8. Bindal, R.K., Sawaya, R., Leavens, M.E.,and Lee, J.J. Surgical treatment of multiple brain metastases. Journal of Neurosurgery, 79:210-216, 1993.
  9. Broemeling, L.D., Gregurich, M.A. A Bayesian approach to the analysis of matched categorical responses. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 25:7, 1996.
  10. Broemeling, L.D., Gregurich, M.A. On a Bayesian approach for the shiftpoint problem. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 25:10, 1996.
  11. Buzdar, A.U., Kau, S.W., Smith, T.L. , Ames, F., Singletary, E., Strom, E., McNeese, M., and Hortobagyi, G.N. The order of administration of chemotherapy and radiation and its effect on the local control of operable breast cancer. Cancer , 71:3780-3684, 1993.
  12. Cartmel, B. and Moon, T.E. Comparison of two physical activity questionnaires, with a diary, for assessing physical activity in an elderly population. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 45:877-883, 1992.
  13. Cartmel, B. and Moon, T.E . Study of strategies for the recruitment of elders including the use of community volunteers. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 40:173-177, February 1992.
  14. Cheng, S.C., Wei, L.J., Ying, Z. Analysis of transformation models with censored data. Biometrika , 82:835-845, 1995. (return to Research #32)
  15. Cheng, S.C., Wei, L.J., Ying, Z. Predicting survival probabilities with semi-parametric transformation models. Journal of the American Statistical Association , in press. (return to Research #32)
  16. Clayman, G.L., Lee, J.J. , Lippman, S.M., and Hong, W.K. Screening for oral leukoplakia at a community health fair. Cancer Prevention, in press.
  17. Denny, T., Yogev, R., Gelman, R., Skuza, C., Oleske, J., Chadwick, E., Cheng, S.C. , Conner, E. Lymphocyte subsets in healthy children during the first five years of life. Journal of the American Medical Association , 267: 1484-1488, 1992. [Published erratum in JAMA , 267:3154, 1992.]
  18. Dimopoulos, M.A., Cabanillas, F., Lee, J.J. , Swan, F., Fuller, L., Allen, P.K., and Hagemeister, F.B. Prognostic role of serum ß2-microglobulin in Hodgkin's disease. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 11:1108-1111, 1993.
  19. Dimopoulos, M.A., Moulopoulos, A., Smith, T. , Delasalle, K.B., and Alexanian, R. Risk of disease progression in asymptomatic multiple myeloma. American Journal of Medicine, 94:57-61, 1993.
  20. The ESVEM Investigators including T. Moon. Determinants of predicted efficacy of antiarrhythmic drugs in electrophysiologic study versus electrocardiographic monitoring trial. Circulation, 87:323-329, 1993.
  21. The ESVEM Investigators including T. Moon. A comparison of seven antiarrhythmic drugs in patients with ventricular tachyarrhythmias. New England Journal of Medicine, 329:452-458, 1993.
  22. Eifel, P.J., Thoms, Jr., W.W., Smith, T.L. , Morris, M., Oswald, M.J. The relationship between brachytherapy dose and outcome in patients with bulky endocervical tumors treated with radiation alone. International Journal of Radiation, Oncology, Biology, Physics, 28:113-118, 1993.
  23. Ensign, L.G., Gehan, E.A., Kamen, D.S., and Thall, P.F. An optimal three-stage design for phase II clinical trials. Statistics in Medicine, 13:1727-1736, 1994. (return to Research #20)
  24. Estey, E., Thall, P. , Andreeff, M., Beran, M., Kantarjian, H., O'Brien, S., Escudier, S., Robertson, L.E., Koller, C., Kornblau, S., Pierce, S., Freireich, E.J, Deisseroth, A., and Keating, M. Use of G-CSF before, during, and after fludarabine + ara-C induction therapy of newly-diagnosed AML or MDS: Comparison with fludarabine + ara-C without G-CSF. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 12:671-678, 1994. (return to Consultations #22)
  25. Etzioni, R., Shen, Y. Estimating asymptotic duration in cancer: the AIDS connection. Statistics in Medicine , in press. (return to Research #28)
  26. Fuller, L.M., Krasin, M.J., Velasquez, W.S., Allen, P.K., McLaughlin, P., Rodriguez, M.A., Hagemeister, F.B., Swan, Jr., F., Cabanillas, F., Palmer, J.L. , and Cox, J.D. Significance of tumor size and radiation dose to local control in stage I-III large cell lymphoma treated with CHOP-Bleo and radiation. International Journal of Radiation, Oncology, Biology, Physics, 31:3-11, 1995.
  27. Gelman, R., Cheng, S.C. , Kidd, P.G., Waxdal, M., Kagan, J. Assessment of the effects of instumentation, monoclonal antibody, and fluorochrome on flow cytometric immunophenotyping: a report based on two years of the NIAID DAIDS flow cytometry quality assessment program. Clinical Immunology & Immunopathology , 66: 150-162, 1993.
  28. Giuliano, A. and Moon, T. Biomarkers of macronutrient intake. IN: M. Micozzi and T. Moon (eds.), Macronutrients: Investigating Their Role in Cancer. Marcel Dekker:181-202, 1992.
  29. Gregurich, M.A., Broemeling, L.D. A Bayesian analysis for estimating the common mean of independent normal populations using the Gibbs sampler. Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation, in press. (return to Research #37)
  30. Guinee, V.F. and Hess, K.R. Estrogen receptor, progesterone receptor and HER-2/NEU protein in breast cancers from pregnant patients (letter to the editor). Cancer , 72:2291, 1993.
  31. Guinee, V.F., Olsson, H., Möller, T., Hess, K.R. , Taylor, S.H., Fahey, T., Gladikov, J.V., van den Blink, J.W., Bonichon, F., Dische, S., Yates, J.W., and Cleton, F.J. The effects of pregnancy on the prognosis of young women with breast cancer. Lancet, 343:1587-1589, 1994. (return to Consultations #2)
  32. Hahn, E.A., Hartz, V.L., Moon, T.E. , O'Connell, J.B., Herskowitz, A., McManus B.M., Mason, J.W. The myocarditis treatment trial: design, methods and patient enrollment. European Heart Journal, in press.
  33. Hess, K.R. Abdominal aortic aneurysm measurement: A critique of methods for comparison studies (letter to the editor). Investigative Radiology, 28:787-788, 1993.
  34. Hess, K.R. Assessing time-by-covariate interactions in Cox proportional hazards regression models using cubic spline functions. Statistics in Medicine, 13:1045-1063, 1994. (back to Research #4)
  35. Hess, K.R. Graphical methods for assessing violations of the proportional hazards assumption in Cox regression. Statistics in Medicine, in press. (back to Research #4)
  36. Ippoliti, C., Przepiorka, D., Smith, T. , Maiese, S. Giralt, S., Andersson, B.S., Deisseroth, A.B., and Champlin, R.E. Adverse effects of Molgramostim in marrow transplant recipients. Clinical Pharmacology, 12:520-525, 1993.
  37. Kantarjian, H., O'Brien, S., Smith, T. , Estey, E., Beran, M., Preti, A., Pierce, S., Keating, M.J. Acute lymphocytic leukaemia in the elderly: characteristics and outcome with the vincristine-adriamycin-dexamethasone (VAD) regimen. British Journal of Haematology, 88:94-100, 1994.
  38. Keitel, W.A., Couch, R.B., Cate, T.R., Hess, K.R. , Baxter, B., Quarles, J.M., Atmar, R., and Six, H. High doses of purified influenza A virus hamaggultinin significantly augment serum and nasal secretion antibody response in healthy young adults. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, in press.
  39. Kidd, P.G., Cheng, S.C. , Paxton, H., Landay, A., Gelman, R. Prediction of CD4 count from CD4 percentage: experience from three laboratories. AIDS , 7:933-940, 1993.
  40. Kornblau, S., Xu, H.J., Zhang, W., Hu, S.X., Beran, M., Smith,T.L. , Hester, J., Estey, E., Benedict, W.F., and Deisseroth, A.B. Levels of retinoblastoma protein expression in newly diagnosed acute myelogenous leukemia. Blood, 84:256-261, 1994.
  41. Lee, J.J ., Li, K.C., and Elashoff, R.M. On recensoring for censored paired data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 88:104-118, 1993.
  42. Lee, J.S., Lippman, S.M., Benner, S.E., Lee, J.J. , Ro, J.Y., Lukeman, J.M., Morice, R.C., Peters, E.J., Pang, A.C., Fritsche, H.A., and Hong, W.K. Randomized placebo-controlled trials of isotretinoin in chemoprevention of bronchial squamous metaplasia. Journal of Clinical Oncology , 12:937-945, 1994.
  43. Lee, J.J. and Tu, Z.N. A better confidence interval for Kappa on measuring agreement between two raters with binary outcome. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 3:301-321, 1994. (return to Research #6)
  44. Lippman, S.M., Batsakis, J.G., Toth, B.B., Weber, R.S., Lee, J.J. , Martin, J.W., Hays, G.L., Goepfert, H., and Hong, W.K. Low-dose 13-cis-Retinoic acid vs. ß-carotene in oral carcinogenesis: a randomized chemoprevention trial. New England Journal of Medicine, 328:15-20, 1993.
  45. Lippman, S.M., Shin, D.M., Lee, J.J. , Batsakis, J.G., Lotan, R., Tainsky, M.A., Hittelman, W.N., and Hong, W.K. p53 and retinoid chemoprevention of oral carcinogenesis. Cancer Research, 55:16-19, 1995.
  46. Mansfield, P.F., Hohn, D.C., Fornage, B.D., Gregurich, M.A., Ota, D.M. Complications and failures of subclavian vein catheterization. New England Journal of Medicine, 331:1735-1738, 1994.
  47. Mason, J.W. for the ESVEM Investigators including T. Moon. A comparison of electrophysiologic testing with Holter monitoring to predict antiarrhythmic-drug efficacy for ventricular tachyarrhythmias. New England Journal of Medicine, 329:445-451, 1993.
  48. Mason, J.W. for the ESVEM Investigators including T. Moon. A comparison of seven antiarrhythmic drugs in patients with ventricular tachyarrhythmias. New England Journal of Medicine, 329:452-458, 1993.
  49. Mason, J.W. for the ESVEM Investigators including T. Moon. The treatment of ventricular tachyarrhythmias. Authors' response to letters to the editor. New England Journal of Medicine, 330:287-288, 1994.
  50. McLaughlin, T.J., Soumerai, S.B., Willison, D.J., Gurwitz, J.H., Borbas, C., Guadagnoli, E., McLaughlin, B., Morris, N., Cheng, S.C. , Hauptmann, P.J., Antman, E., Casey, L., Asinger, R., Gobel, F. Adherence to national guidelines for drug treatment of suspected acute myocardial infarction: evidence for undertreatment in women and the elderly.Archives of Internal Medicine , 156:799-805, 1996.
  51. Meyskens, F.L.,Surwit, E., Moon, T.E., Childers, J.M., Davis, J.R., Dorr, R.T., Johnson, C.S., and Alberts, D.S. Enhancement of regression of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia II (moderate dysplasia) with topically applied all-trans-retinoic acid: a randomized trial. National Cancer Institute, 86:539-543, 1994.
  52. Moon, T. Study design for prevention of aerodigestive tract cancers. IN: G. Newell and W. K. Hong (eds.), The Biology and Prevention of Aerodigestive Tract Cancers. Plenum Publishers:New York, 1992.
  53. Moon, T. Vitamin A and Cancer Prevention in Humans. IN: G. A. Bray and D. H. Ryan (eds.), Pennington Center Nutrition Series, Volume 3: Vitamins and Cancer Prevention , pp. 325-339. Louisiana State University Press: Baton Rouge, 1993.
  54. Navone, N.M., Troncoso, P., Pisters, L.L., Palmer, J.L. , von Eschenbach, A.C., and Conti, C.J. p53 protein accumulation in the progression of human prostate carcinoma. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 85:1657-1669, 1993.
  55. O'Brien, S., Kantarjian, H., Beran, M., Smith, T ., Koller, C., Estey, E., Robertson, L.E., Lerner, S., Keating, M. Results of fludarabine and prednisone therapy in 264 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia with multivariate analysis-derived prognostic model for response to treatment. Blood, 82:1695-1700, 1993.
  56. Palmer, J.L. Review of The Design and Analysis of Sequential Clinical Trials, 2nd edition, by John Whitehead (Book Review). Statistics in Medicine, 12:2057-2060, 1993.
  57. Palmer, J.L. and Broemeling, L.D. A Bayesian estimate of autocorrelation in a regression model. IN: D.A. Berry, L. Chaloner, and J. Geweke (eds.), Bayesian Statistics and Econometrics: A Tribute to Arnold Zellner. Wiley: New York, in press.
  58. Palmer, J.L. and Broemeling, L.D. Two Bayesian estimates of autocorrelation in a regression model. IN: American Statistical Association 1993 Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, pp. 249-253, 1993.
  59. Palmer, J.L. and Broemeling, L.D. Regression models with autocorrelated errors: A Gibbs sampling approach. IN: American Statistical Association 1993 Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, pp. 91-95, 1993.
  60. Palmer, J.L. and Broemeling, L.D. Simulation results of a Bayesian estimate of autocorrelation in a regression model. Computing Science and Statistics, 25:223-227, 1993. (return to Research #13)
  61. Palmer, J.L. and Pettit, L.I. Dangers of using automatic priors with Gibbs sampling and autocorrelated errors. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, in press. (return to Research #13)
  62. Peng, Y.M., Moon, T.E. , et al . Concentrations and plasma-tissue-diet relationships of carotenoids, retinoids, and tocopherols in humans. Nutrition and Cancer, 23:233-246, 1995.
  63. Peng, Y.M., Peng, Y.S., Lin, Y., Moon, T. , Baier, M. Micronutrient concentrations in paired skin and plasma of patients with actinic keratoses: Effect of prolonged retinol supplementation. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention, 2:145-150,1993.
  64. Przepiorka, D., Dimopoulos, M., Smith, T. , Ippoliti, C., Diener, K., Luna, M., and Champlin, R.E. Theiotepa, busulfan, and cyclophosphamide as a preparative regimen for marrow transplantation: risk factors for early regimen-related toxicity. Annals of Hematology, 68:183-188, 1994.
  65. Ritter, A.M., Sawaya, R., Hess, K.R. , Levin, V.A., and Bruner, J.M. Prognostic significance of bromodeoxyuridine labeling in primary and recurrent glioblastoma multiforme. Neurosurgery, 35:192-198, 1994.
  66. Safi, H.J., Bartoli, S., Hess, K.R. , Shenaq, S.S., Viets, J.R., Butt, G.R., Sheinbaum, R., Doerr, H.K., Maulsby, R., and Rivera, V.M. Neurological deficit in high risk patients with thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms: The role of cerebral spinal fluid drainage and distal aortic perfusion. Journal of Vascular Surgery, in press.
  67. Schag, C.A.C., Ganz, P.A., Wing, D.S., Sim, M.S., and Lee, J.J. Quality of life in adult survivors of lung, colon, and prostate cancer. Quality of Life Research , 3:127-141, 1994.
  68. Shen, Y. , Fleming, T.R.. Large sample properties for some survival estimators in heterogeneous samples. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference , in press. (return to Research #26)
  69. Shen, Y. , Fleming, T.R.. Mean survival estimation, with application to two sample test. 1995 Proceeding of Biometrics of American Statistical Association . 433-438. (return to Research #27)
  70. Shen, Y. , Fleming, T.R.. Weighted mean survival test statistics: a class of distance tests for censored survival data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society , Ser. B, in press. (return to Research #27)
  71. Shiono, M., Noon, G.P., Hess, K.R. , Takatani, S., Sasaki, T., Orime, Y., Young, J.B., NosÉ, Y., and DeBakey, M.E. Anatomic constraints for a total artificial heart in orthotopic heart transplant recipients. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 13:250-262, 1994.
  72. Siller, L., Martin, N.L., Kostuchenko, P., Beckett, L., Rautonen, J., Cheng, S.C. , Wara, D. Serum levels of soluble CD8, neopterin, beta 2-microglobulin and p24 antigen as indicators of disease progression in children with AIDS on zidovudine therapy. AIDS , 7:369-373, 1993.
  73. Simon, R. and Thall, P.F. , and Ellenberg, S.S. New designs for the selection of treatments to be tested in randomized clinical trials. Statistics in Medicine, 13:417-430, 1994. (return to Research #18)
  74. Sinicrope, F.A., Hart, J., Brasitus, T.A., Michelassi, F., Lee, J.J. , and Safa, A.R. Relationship of P-glycoprotein and CEA expression in human colon carcinoma to local invasion, DNA ploidy, and disease relapse. Cancer, 74:2908-2917, 1994.
  75. Sinicrope, F., Roddey, G., Mcdonnell, T., Shen, Y. , Stephens, C. Increased apoptosis accompanies neoplastic fevelopment in the human colorectum. Clinical Cancer Research , in press. (return to Consultations #27)
  76. Svensson, L.G., Crawford, E.S., Hess, K.R. , Coselli, J.S., Raskin, S., Shenaq, S.A., and Safi, H.J. Deep hypothermia with circulatory arrest: Determinants of stroke and early mortality in 656 patients. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 106: 19-31, 1993.
  77. Svensson, L.G., Crawford, E.S., Hess, K.R. , Coselli, J.S., and Safi, H.J. Experience with 1509 patients undergoing thoracoabdominal aortic operations. Journal of Vascular Surgery, 17: 357-370, 1993.
  78. Svensson, L.G., Hess, K.R. , Coselli, J.S., and Safi, H.J. Influence of segmental arteries, extent, and arteriofemoral bypass on postoperative paraplegia after thoracoabdominal aortic operations. Journal of Vascular Surgery, 20:255-262, 1994.
  79. Thall, P.F. and Estey, E. A Bayesian strategy for screening cancer treatments prior to Phase II clinical evaluation. Statistics in Medicine, 12:1197-1211, 1993. (return to Research #17)
  80. Thall, P.F. , Jacoby, D., and Zimmerman, S.O. Estimating genomic category probabilities from fluorescent in situ hybridization counts with misclassification. Applied Statistics , in press. (return to Research #25)
  81. Thall, P.F . and Simon, R. A Bayesian approach to establishing sample size and monitoring criteria for phase II clinical trials. Controlled Clinical Trials, 15:463-481, 1994. (return to Research #21)
  82. Thall, P.F. and Simon, R. Practical Bayesian guidelines for phase IIB clinical trials. Biometrics, 50:337-349, 1994. (return to Research #19)
  83. Thall, P.F. and Simon, R. Recent developments in the design of phase II clinical trials. IN: P.F. Thall (ed.), Recent Advances in the Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials. Kluwer: Norwell, Massachusetts, in press. (return to Research #23)
  84. Thall, P.F. , Simon, R., and Estey, E. Bayesian sequential monitoring designs for single-arm clinical trials with multiple outcomes. Statistics in Medicine, 14:357-379, 1995. (return to Research #22)
  85. Trizna, Z., Hsu, T.C., Schantz, S.P., Lee, J.J. , and Hong, W.K. Anticlastogenic effects of 13-cis-Retinoic acid in vitro . European Journal of Cancer, 29A:137-140, 1993.
  86. Trizna, Z., Lee, J.J. , Hsu, T.C., Benner, S., Pang, A., and Hong, W.K. In vivo protective effects of 13-cis-Retinoic acid against mutagen-induced genetic damage. Cancer Research Therapy and Control, in press.
  87. Trizna, Z., Schantz, S.P., Lee, J.J. , Spitz, M.R., Goepfert, H., Hsu, T.C. and Hong, W.K. In vitro protective effects of chemopreventive agents against bleomycin-induced genotoxicity in peripheral blood lymphocytes of head and neck cancer patients. Cancer Detection and Prevention, 17:575-583, 1993.
  88. Vassilopoulou-Sellin, R., Guinee, V.F., Klein, M.J., Taylor, S.H., Hess, K.R. , Schultz, P.N., and Samaan, N.A. Impact of adjuvant mitotane on the clinical course of patients with adrenocortical cancer. Cancer , 71: 3119-3123, 1993.
  89. Vassilopoulou-Sellin, R., Guinee, V.F., Taylor, S.H., and Hess, K.R. , Impact of adjuvant mitotane on the clinical course of patients with adrenocortical cancer (letter to the editor). Cancer , 73: 1533-1535, 1994.
  90. Vybiral, T., Glaeser, D.H., Morris, G., Hess, K.R. , Yang, K., Francis, M., and Pratt, C.M. Effects of low-dose transdermal scopolamine on heart rate variability in acute myocardial infarction. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 22: 557-565, 1993.
  91. Younis, G.A., Sawaya, R. DeMonte, F., Bruner, J., and Hess, K.R. Aggressive meningeal tumors: review of a series. Journal of Neurosurgery, in press.

Submitted Publications

  1. Abbruzzese, J.L., Abbruzzese, M.C., Lenzi, R., Hess, K.R. , Raber, M.N. Latent primary malignancies: diagnostic evaluation, common primaries, and survival patterns of patients presenting with tumors of unknown origin.
  2. Bindal, A.K., Bindal, R.K., Hess, K.R. , Maor, M., Sawaya, R. Surgery versus radiosurgery in the treatment of brain metastasis.
  3. Bindal, R.K., Sawaya R., Leavens, M.E., Hess, K.R. , Taylor, S.H. Reoperation for recurrent metastatic brain tumors.
  4. Cheng, S.C., Fine, J.P., Wei, L.J. Prediction of cumulative incidence function under the proportional hazards model. (return to Research #34)
  5. Cheng, S.C., Thall, P.F. Distribution-free confidence intervals for Pr(x < y) based on censored survival data. (return to Research #33)
  6. Etzioni, R., Shen, Y. , Petteway, J.C., Brawer, M.K. Age specific PSA: a re-assessment. (return to Research #31)
  7. Hammoud, M.A., Sawaya, R., Shi, W., Thall, P.F. , and Leeds, N.E. Prognostic significance of preoperative MRI scans in glioblastoma multiforme. (return to Consultations #24)
  8. Hananian, E.G., Giles, R.E., Kavanaugh, J., Thall, P.F., Cheng, S.C., Ellerson, D., Zu, Z., Wang, T., Su, Y., Kudelka, A., Rahman, Z., Holmes, F., Hortobagyi, G., Claxon, D., Bachier, C., Hester, J., Korbling, M., Seong, D., Cote, R., Holzmayer, T., Mechetner, E., Heimfeld, S., Berenson, R., Burtness, B., Edwards, C., Bast, R., Andreeff, M., Champlin, R., Deisseroth, A.B. Results of MDR-1 modification trial indicate that CFUGM do not contribute to post transplant hematopoietic recovery following intensive systemic therapy.
  9. Keitel, W.A., Cate, T.R., Couch, R.B., Huggins, L.L., Hess, K.R. Inactivated influenza virus vaccines maintain efficacy when given annually over a five year period.
  10. Kornblau, S.M., Thall, P.F. , Huh, Y.O., Estey, E.H., and Andreeff, M. Analysis of CD7 expression in acute myelogenous leukemia: Martingale residual plots combined with "optimal" cutpoint analysis reveals absence of prognostic significance. (return to Research #24)
  11. Lee, J.J. , Serachitopol, D.M., and Brown, B.W. Likelihood weighted confidence intervals for the difference of two binomial probabilities.
  12. Lee, J.J. and Tu, Z.N. A versatile one-dimensional distribution plot: the BLiP plot.
  13. Lee, J.S., Yoon, A., Kalapurakal, R.S., Ro, J.Y., Lee, J.J. , Hittelman, W.N., and Hong, W.K. Expression of p53 oncoprotein in non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): A favorable prognostic factor?
  14. Levin, V.A., Thall, P.F. , Maor, M.H., Yung, W.K.A., Bruner, J., Sawaya, R., Kyritsis, A., Leeds, S. Woo, Rodriguez, L., and Gleason, M.J. Phase II study of accelerated fractionation radiation therapy with carboplatin followed by PCV chemotherapy for the treatment of glioblastoma multiforme. (return to Consultations #23)
  15. Lotan, R., Hong, W.K., Ro, J.Y., Lee, J.S., Lippman, S.M., Lee, J.J. , and Xu, X.C. Decreased retinoic acid receptor b in premalignant oral lesions and its increase by retinoic acid in vivo.
  16. Midis G., Shen, Y. , Owen-Schaub, L. Elevated soluble Fas (sFas) levels in nonhematopoietic human malignancy. (return to Consultations #26)
  17. Palmer, J.L. and Müller, P. Bayesian optimal design in hematologic data.
  18. Pettit, L.I. and Palmer, J.L. Seasonal patterns of fertility measures---a Bayesian approach.
  19. Roddey, G., Ruan, S., Stephens, L.C., Frazier, M.L., Glober, G., Shen, Y. , Zhang, W., Sinicrope, F.A. Loss of p21 protein expression accompanies neoplastic progression in human colorectum. (return to Consultations #28)
  20. Rubenstein, E.B., Fender, A., Ralston, K.V.I., Elfing, L., Prasco, P., Palmer, J. , Raad, I., Pollock, R., Frisbee-Hume, S., Laurence, D., and Hohn, D. Vascular access by physician assistants in oncology: evaluation of an implantable peripheral port system.
  21. Safi, H.J., Bellard, B.M., Hess, K.R . Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms: current technique.
  22. Seong, D., Thall, P.F. , Kantarjian, H., Swantkowski, J., Xu, J., Shen, Y. , Zimmerman, S., Glassman, A., Ramagli, L., Freireich, E., Champlin, R., Siciliano, M. A comparison of the sensitivity of blood and bone marrow for the presence of the Ph+ chromosome in chronic myelogenous leukemia by fluorescent in situ hypridization. (return to Other Consultations #77)
  23. Shen, Y. , Fleming, T.R.. Assessment of long term survival in an intervention using historical controls. (return to Research #30)
  24. Shen, Y. , Thall, P.F. Parametric likelihoods for times to multiple competing risk non-fatal events and death. (return to Research #29)
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