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SUBMITTER: Fox R
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3992496 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fox R R Berhane S S Teng M M Cox T T Tada T T Toyoda H H Kumada T T Kagebayashi C C Satomura S S Johnson P J PJ
British journal of cancer 20140401 8
<h4>Background</h4>The Japanese 'BALAD' model offers the first objective, biomarker-based, tool for assessment of prognosis in hepatocellular carcinoma, but relies on dichotomisation of the constituent data, has not been externally validated, and cannot be applied to the individual patients.<h4>Methods</h4>In this Japanese/UK collaboration, we replicated the original BALAD model on a UK cohort and then built a new model, BALAD-2, on the original raw Japanese data using variables in their continu ...[more]