No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2006 ASCO Annual Meeting. This abstract does not include a full text component.

The role of second-line chemotherapy (CT) is not established in advanced biliary tract cancer (aBTC). We investigated the outcome of aBTC patients treated with second-line CT and devised a prognostic ...

Four poor prognostic factors were identified and a simple prognostic index was devised. Information from this analysis can be used to aid clinical decision-making, help individual patient risk ...

Early detection and identification of the root cause of process upsets using advanced multivariate analysis (MVA) techniques provides significant economic benefits and cost savings. Today’s ...

Due to the marked interpersonal neuropathologic and clinical heterogeneity of Parkinson's disease (PD), current interventions are not personalized and fail to benefit all patients. Furthermore, we ...

Multivariate analysis is commonly used when we have more than one outcome variables for each observation. For instance, a survey of American adults’ physical and mental health might measure each ...

Multivariate analysis in statistics is a set of useful methods for analyzing data when there are more than one variables under consideration. Multivariate analysis techniques may be used for several ...