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Such a problem was reflected, for instance, in the possible role of HBV and HPV, in the development of CRC, based on the colorectal tissues: the former had a highly significant association but only one publication supported it, and the latter had an association just above significance, but was substantiated by 11 publications.

The subgroup analysis between the HCC recurrence as per the year of the study’s completion revealed a decreasing trend; however, it was not statistically significant. 3.3.

Although a considerable proportion of HIR patients still received EBRT ± VBT in earlier times, a significant trend of the increasing VBT utilization rate was observed.

Table 8 shows that among CS1 cases, there was a significant trend towards decreasing frequencies of cases with increasing tumour size, and an inverse trend was seen in stages with metastases ( p < 0.0001; Cochran–Armitage trend test).

In fact, prior to the start of suitable cancer treatment, the patients who are diagnosed in an early stage of the disease showed a significant trend toward the overall survival rate and were offered a cost-effective means of cancer treatment, as compared to those diagnosed at a later stage [ 4 ].

We observed that the mean zinc levels were lower in the urine of cancer patients than in healthy subjects, with a decreasing trend in correlation with the progression of the disease.

However, male patients stratified by age showed a decreasing trend in rash grade associated with increasing age but without reaching statistical significance by Fisher’s exact test ( Figure 6 ).

However, molecular profiling ( Figure S5 ) showed only a slight trend for higher expression of CTC genes.

Similarly, Western sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe showed the largest decreases in death rates with increasing SDI values, and only Oceania showed an increasing trend.

These tools may be significant in therapeutic strategies for studying aging or cancer.

After excluding the first year of follow-up, a decreasing trend in SIR with increasing time since first primary CRC was found for all cancers (SIR 1,18; 95% CI 1.07–1.30; SIR 0.88; 95% CI 0.80–0.95; SIR 0.82; 95% CI 0.75–0.89 for 1–4, 5–9 and 10 or more years since first primary, respectively; p -trend < 0.001), A decreasing trend in SIR was also found for lung cancer ( p < 0.001), stomach cancer ( p = 0.001), ovarian cancer ( p = 0.003), CRC ( p = 0.003), liver cancer ( p = 0.004), kidney cancer ( p = 0.01) and bladder cancer ( p = 0.04).

The overall higher SIR was, nevertheless, due to few specific cancer types, including ovary, kidney, endometrial and bladder cancer, and stomach cancer with borderline significant increase.

When looking at Table 4 , however, some exceptions can be noticed: breast and prostate cancer showed no trend, consistent with the fact that they did not turn out to be associated to CRC as FPC; thyroid cancer also lacks a significant trend, likely due to the small number of cases included in the study; endometrial cancer was the only cancer type which showed to be at an increased risk with a constant trend in time.

Results: In 2018, 1340 incident cases of PC in the Veneto population were registered (4.1% of all malignant tumors), with an increasing trend in females and stable incidence in males.

In the multivariate analysis of distant metastasis, we found that metastases were diagnosed significantly less frequently in pT3a carcinomas than in pT3b,c, while they occurred almost significantly more frequently in pT3d carcinomas.

An overall trend in research shows that natural products have been studied mostly for their chemopreventive or chemoprotective effects; however, immunomodulatory effects remain to be discovered.

The first meta-analysis covering approximately one thousand patients showed a highly significant association of pre- and post-therapeutic sarcopenia with reduced overall survival in 7 studies with median patient ages of 57–66 years.

In the same manner, only CD1a ST had prognostic value ( Table 3 ) and a correlation close to significance with patient staging ( Table 4 ), leading to the examination of such a combination regarding OS. 3.2.

Statistically highly significant positive and negative associations with overall survival are discussed below ( Table 6 , Table 7 and Table 8 ).

Likewise, even if only showing a strong trend for formal statistical significance, the ECOG-PS 2 patients undergoing IO-based treatments exhibited a poorer survival (12.1 (95% CI, 3.9–20.4) months vs.

Similarly, the patients with a poorer PS receiving IO-based treatments had a numerically shorter median PFS while showing a significant trend for statistical significance (6.1 (95% CI, 0.6–11.5) months vs.

Despite the inclusion of various prognostic factors in the multivariable model, the impact of annual caseload on the outcomes remained highly significant.

Again, we should caution that the basal Y118 signal in LNCaP cell was very weak to begin with, and that the decrease in signal quantitated on the right ( Figure 3 C, left panel), despite its annotation as moderately significant, should be considered in the context of whether a “weak signal” becoming “negligible” can be taken as a possible indication of biological significance for motility.

Their data included all populations with or without treatment, and the difference was apparent among BDC locations.

Kaplan–Meier curves showed a positive trend for tumor size < 5 cm and PFS (0.068).