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Those settlements were, until the late 18th century, very small and tentative however. The rubber trade wouldn't get started until the 19th century, so the major export in the area was foraged herbs and nuts.
I was planning to write a bug report one of these days regarding game start with Lithuania. I see changes are already made, and we have Smolensk- is it Lithuanian vassal?
(Wikipedia: In 1395, while Yury was visiting his father-in-law, Oleg Korotopol of Ryazan, his brother-in-law, Vytautas the Great (Vitovt), took Smolensk and installed his governor there. Four years later, Vytautas was routed by the Tatars in the Battle of the Vorskla River. In 1401, Yury and Oleg made use of his plight to retake Smolensk and Bryansk, where the pro-Lithuanian boyars were promptly executed.)
Also, in 1399 start, is Lithuania at war- a crusade against Golden Horde? And by any chance, is Samogitia reaching the sea?
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The game slows down to a crawl when there's too many potential countries to keep track of. The idea adding a bunch of individual members of the nobility is incredibly infeasible when you take that issue into account. The game will have to keep track of all of them, as well.
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The game can handle alot more things without suffering major slowdowns. Not to mention with new things will come new optimizations that will improve performance. Also, (hopefully) will come new access to these new things that will enable modders to do things more directly, thereby making the mods more optimized and streamlined too.
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That's true, but it is true in the same way that England's American colonies went all the way west to the Pacific. There were some outposts set up, but let's be honest, they were hardly colonies. For example, Conneticuit was given a northern latitude and a southern latitude and ran from the Atlantic to the Pacific in its charter. It set up some trade posts in what is now Ohio, in an area that they called at the time the 'Western Reserve.' Early during the days of the USA, Conneticuit, Ohio, and Pennsylvania claimed this area. It was disconnected from Conneticuit, but it was in its charter. Pennsylvania claimed that the region was actually in its charter, and since it borders the state, that it should get it. The recently created Ohio territory also claimed it, but their claim was weak. Pennsylvanian and Conneticution settlers fought a skirmish over this land.
Fun history story aside, it was technically an English colony as a part of Conneticuit, the Western Reserve. However, it wasn't taxed efficiently, if at all, and had no major communities. While it is inhabitable in the game, it doesn't have a colony there because the number of people settled there was so tiny. The same could be said for Portugal's settlement of the Amazon, except that no one was going to be settling there because of the environment.
PS. I am nearly certain that Maine was a part of King René of Anjou's domain, but I can't find proof. I'm living in Provence right now and I swear I've seen stuff mentioning his rule as Count/Duke of Maine, but I can't prove it.
Please don't change the Balkans. Thanks.
Most succession wars were actually fought because of very distant realtionsships over for example the 2nd and 3rd daughter of a ruler 3 generations before when the male line dies out.. Thats what i want. ATM it looks like succesion wars are likely to happen more even if their was a legitimate but weak heir, this would be very bad for the feel of the game.
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Nice, nice, nice! This gets better every day.
Though I hope you didn't nerf France too much.
For one, a strong France gave at least a decent challenge near the end of the game...
I like the addition of legitimacy. It ought to make expansion a bit more interesting now that there is another more readily controllable alternative to wars.
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I am glad they removed the PTI. Wasteland will have a dull grey color it seems but it is a big improvement.
It would be nice if some wasteland areas could be colonized later on as technology advanced. Sort of like the Victorian system. You could colonize the interior of Africa after you invented Machine Guns I think.
Whatever the case, it will give modders more options anyway.
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Part of me wonder if there isn't some in-between possible. Less than a fully independent vassal state, but not able to exert the absolute control (Relatively speaking) in the royal domains. Maybe a couple of numbers that show
a)local ruler's control over the area
b)national control over the area
They wouldn't necessarily be in competition; but if the national control was low enough they might be more likely to break away as an actual vassal, and if no one had decent control, then it's probably no man's land.
Well this is probably something for EUIV, if that, so..
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Setting Up a Linux Gateway
Networks are extremely common these days—you see them in businesses, schools, even homes. Networking is popular because it allows users to share resources. You can share files, printers and a myriad of other devices in a network. Now, wouldn't it be great if you could share an Internet connection? With Linux, you can.
Setting up Linux as an Internet gateway is not difficult to do. A Linux gateway allows two or more computers to use the Internet at the same time. While doing so, only the gateway's IP address will be visible on the Internet. The rest of the computers will be "hidden" behind the gateway. This is called IP masquerading.
What can you do with this setup? Well, if you have four computers connected to the gateway, you can surf the Web from any of the four computers at the same time. You can run telnet sessions, go on IRC (Internet relay chat), read newsgroups, etc.—almost anything you can do on the Internet can be done. Of course, there are certain things that may need your attention, and I will discuss them as well as setting up both Linux and Windows machines to use the gateway.
First of all, you need a working TCP/IP network. I assume your network is up and running, and all your machines are able to "see" each other.
I will discuss setting up IP masquerading using Linux kernel 2.2.x and ipchains 1.3.x. If for some reason you are running an early kernel such as 1.x.x, please refer to Chris Kostick's articles on IP masquerading in issues 27 and 43 of Linux Journal.
Also, please make sure you have a copy of the Linux IP Masquerade mini HOWTO (http://ipmasq.cjb.net/) by Ambrose Au and David Ranch. It contains much more detailed information on setting up IP masquerading, including setting up Macintosh and Windows NT clients. It also contains a useful FAQ should you run into problems. This article is based on that mini HOWTO as well as personal experience.
I also assume you are familiar with basic Linux system administration, and that you know how to recompile your kernel and modify your init scripts.
The next thing to figure out is what you want to do. How many machines are on the network? Which machine do you wish to set up as the gateway? Which machines will be the clients? What operating system is each machine running? The answers to these questions can be complex and unique, so for the purposes of this article, we will use the setup shown in Figure 1. This is a three-node network with a Linux gateway (antioch), a Linux client (nazareth) and a Windows 95 client (lystra).
Let's start by setting up the gateway, which in our case is antioch (192.168.0.1). Antioch runs Linux 2.2.x, and in order for it to become a gateway, we need to turn on certain kernel options. My gateway has the kernel options shown in Table 1 turned on.
After booting our newly compiled kernel, we will have to load a few kernel modules using either insmod or modprobe:
/sbin/insmod ip_masq_user /sbin/insmod ip_masq_raudio /sbin/insmod ip_masq_ftp /sbin/insmod ip_masq_irc
It would be wise to add these lines into one of your init scripts so they will run on every startup. There are other kernel modules related to IP masquerading; for a full list, type the command
/sbin/modprobe -l | grep ip_masqLinux 2.2 does not turn on IP forwarding by default. To find out whether IP forwarding is switched on, check the contents of the file /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward. If it is 0, IP forwarding is off; if 1, it is on.
# cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 0 # echo "1" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward # cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward 1Again, it is wise to add the line which turns on IP forwarding (the one with the echo command) to one of your init scripts.
Now we come to an interesting situation. How do we know who gets to use the gateway and who doesn't? This is where ipchains comes in. My current policy is to deny access to the gateway from everybody unless explicitly allowed. For example, let's say we want only our client machines nazareth and lystra to access our gateway and no one else. In order to do this, we have to issue the following commands:
ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.2/255.255.255.0\ -j MASQ ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.3/255.255.255.0\ -j MASQ
If, on the other hand, we want everybody on the network 192.168.0.* to use the gateway, we can issue these commands:
ipchains -P forward DENY ipchains -A forward -s 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0\ -j MASQNote that we assume the netmask is 255.255.255.0. If your netmask is different, simply change the values accordingly. There are many other things you can do with ipchains; however, they are beyond the scope of this article. I trust that the two simple examples above will get you started. (See also "Building a Firewall with IP Chains" by Pedro Bueno, http://www.linuxjournal.com/lj-issue/issue68/3622.html.)
That's it! The gateway is now up and running. Remember to add the relevant lines to the startup scripts. Also remember to connect to the Internet before testing your gateway. Now let's set up the clients.
File upload problem
I have configured a Linux gateway and all internet connectivity(download) is okey from client pc but problem is file upload or file attached from client pc.Suppose if I want to attach a file in my gmail but I can not attached. And no error message shown whats the problem??? Please give me an solution....
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Good Article
This is an amazing article,well done lawrence,do post good articles
Update on this info
I know this article is several years old now. But if the author or anybody who still reads this, kindly point me to an updated site. I'm using ubuntu and would appreciate any help to set it up as an internet gateway.
Easy gateway/firewall setup for Ubuntu
It's still a good article!
I just got an Ubuntu 6.10 machine configured as a gateway! After perusing the net for a bit, I found out about the firehol package that sets up an iptables-based firewall. Here are the steps I followed to configure my machine:
- Install the firehol package. I used synaptic from the menu (Applications => System => Synaptic Package Manager). Simply search for "firehol", mark it for installation, and Apply.
- Edit the /etc/firehol/firehol.conf configuration file. See below for the configuration I used.
- Edit the /etc/default/firehol file to enable the firewall to come up at boot time and to wait until all necessary network interfaces are up first.
- Start the firewall with the firehol start command.
- Your LAN machines will need to know how to reach the Internet through your new gateway machine. You can either set up a DHCP server on your gateway, or manually configure each machine on the LAN with a static route. (Since I only have a couple of machines on my LAN, I just manually configured them.)
- Your LAN machines will also need to know how to resolve domain names to IP addresses. If you set up your gateway as a DHCP server, it will pass through the nameservers it uses to each LAN machine. Otherwise, you'll need to edit each LAN machine's /etc/resolv.conf file.
That's it!
You should test your setup with the following steps. If any one of these steps doesn't work, check your configuration files and get it working before proceeding to the next step.
- From your newly configured gateway, make sure you can ping a non-stealthed network address such as ns.google.com. Make a note of the IP address (ns.google.com was 184.108.40.206 when I wrote this).
- From your gateway, make sure you can ping all the machines on your LAN.
- Make sure that you can ping the gateway from each of the machines on your LAN.
- From each machine on your LAN, make sure you can ping the network IP address you wrote down in the first test. (DNS may not be working yet, so avoid domain names at this point.)
- From each machine on your LAN, make sure domain names get resolved correctly. You can use the host command for this. Try the domain name you used in the first step, and try pinging it too.
If all five steps worked, your should have a fully working gateway and LAN! To REALLY make sure, reboot your firewall and use the firehol status command to verify the firewall is running.
Here is the /etc/firehol/firehol.conf file I used:
- interface eth0 INET
- policy drop
- protection strong
- client all accept
- interface eth1 LAN
- policy accept
- router LAN_2_INET inface eth1 outface eth0
- masquerade
- route all accept
- policy drop
In my setup, "eth0" is the interface that connects the gateway to my ISP, and "eth1" is the interface that connects the gateway to my LAN.
Here is my /etc/default/firehol file:
#If you want to have firehol wait for an iface to be up add it here
In my /etc/network/interfaces file, the interface "eth0" occurs before "eth1", so both interfaces will be active before the firewall gets started at boot time.
This firewall configuration is very basic; it assumes all LAN machines are completely trustworthy, and that there are no services running on the gateway or LAN machines that need to be visible to the internet (such as FTP, SSH, or HTTP). That being said, however, firehol looks like it can handle most situations with ease, and is fairly well documented.
I hope this helps! Please note any corrections needed here (if any).
NOTE: Because firehol is a single bash script, it should work on just about any Gnu/Linux distribution with iptables support. (Your mileage may vary.)
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wrong URL, but still interesting nevertheless. LOL
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omg! .... next time give a warning about that link to those of us at school
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distance for a thumber?
Last I knew it was Stokley, I don't remember what it was though and I can not find it either.
I remember how he was telling a story about how he was scheduled to put a clinic on and the poster said something to the effect he was distance record holder but it did not say how (backhand or forehand). It was just after his backhand record was broken so they came up with idea that he would set the forehand record which he did do and the poster wasn't lying he did have the distance record.
The little bit I have been able to be around Scott he was always very enjoyable to visit with.
Scotts 518' sidearm throw would give him third place behind Victor malafrontes 538' and Ken Westerfields 552' Both of their throws were with a 119 gram World Class Frisbee. These heavy weighted disc are better for backhand than sidearm.
Maybe they should try Sidearm throwing at The Big D in the desert !!
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He's listed at 518.3 feet. for sidearm.
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I have a lot of visual symptoms, but the oddest, though not the most distracting, is that sometimes I see certain letters in color. Like, really see -- but only on a computer. I'm not sure how to describe this -- it isn't synesthesia! There is no consistency to it, and synesthesia is consistent. It only happens on computers and the colors change from one day to the next.
First the text will start to look washed out and brownish. Then a single letter starts appearing in color (usually lowercase 'L', which sometimes looks green, sometimes blue, purple, rust...the color is random and not tied to the letter in any way.) After a few moments, other letters will start to appear in color. Usually they appear in the same color as the first letter, but sometimes they appear in other colors. Changing the font size helps for a moment, but then the colors reassert themselves. Changing font type, or using serif instead of sans-serif doesn't do anything.
Strangely, my brain differentiates between a sans-serif 'I' and a sans-serif 'l', which look alike without serifs. It also has no problem with 'O', 'o', and '0'. My brain has absolutely no problem knowing which letter should be what color. Uppercase letters are not necessarily the same color as their lowercase counterparts. Numbers do not seem to be affected.
I've been everywhere and back, but haven't found anything that talks about this. So I was hoping somebody here has a clue.
Again, this is not synesthesia--I actually am synesthetic (I 'see' and 'shape' music)and have been tested for other types of synesthesia as well. This is most definitely not synesthesia.


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Uh-oh! Taylor's new music video 'I Knew You Were Trouble' draws a striking resemblance to Rihanna's video for 'We Found Love'. Did the country cutie copy the pop princess?
Taylor Swift and Rihanna have a lot in common — they are both amazing singers, they both have complicated love lives, they both travel the world, and now it appears that they have very similar music videos. On Dec. 13, Taylor debuted her latest hit, "I Knew You Were Trouble," and fans have noticed that the video is strikingly similar to Rihanna's 2011 hit, "We Found Love". Read on for all the details and vote for your favorite video!
Similarities Between 'I Knew You Were Trouble' & 'We Found Love'
Taylor's new video stars Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark actor, Reeve Carney, as her bad-boy boyfriend, and it must be said, the video is very similar to "We Found Love". Both videos see Taylor and Rihanna breaking down in a field, while both girls are also seen cozying up to a bad boy, getting tattoos, and crying in corner. There is also a wild party scene in both videos.
And let's not forget fast driving, fireworks and dancing on tables!
Fans' Reactions To Allegations That Taylor Swift Stole Rihanna's Video
In an ARTL fan forum, fan's have lashed out at Taylor for copying Rihanna, as one wrote "No lies. Rihanna's remains superior" and another said "It's clearly a copy." One fan went as far to say that "We Found Love is the video of the year of 2012 though. I Knew You Were Trouble is just another Taylor Swift video." Ouch!
Taylor Swift's Opening Monologue
And, like Rihanna's video, Taylor's begins with a monologue. It goes:
"I think when it's all over it just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memories. It just all comes back. But he never does. I think part of me knew the second I saw him that this would happen. It's not really anything he said, or anything he did, it was the feeling that came along with it and the crazy thing is, I don't know if I'm ever going to feel that way again. But I don't know if I should. I knew his world moved too fast and burned too bright but I just thought, how can the devil be pulling you towards someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you. Maybe he knew that when he saw me. I guess I just lost my balance. I think that the worst part of it all wasn't losing him, it was losing me."
What do YOU think, HollywoodLifers? Is Taylor copying Rihanna, or is it just a random coincidence?
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the video is a total ripoff of rhinnas video and 'ride' by lana de rey. might be not taylors fault but then again we don't know, but the fact that a video was made that resembles quite much two very recent ones, is kind of copying.. the dark taylor thing would be better if you haven't seen the already this story before..
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Actually, "We Found Love" was directed by Melina Matsoukas…not Anthony Mandler. Mandler directed many of Rihanna's videos (including Diamonds), but not this one. So Taylor IS copying Rihanna. And it's copying in a way that is just blatant ripping off. Taylor should have just cut the whole speaking entry and use different look and not looked like she was on drugs…Rihanna can do that look…Not Taylor "We Are never Ever Getting Back Together" Swift.
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Uhhh.. NEWS FLASH, EVERYONE!!! Both videos had the same director!! Anthony Mandler has directed give or take about 12 music videos for Rihanna. Of course the videos are going to have a similar style, but it's not because Taylor copied Rihanna. If you look at all of Mandler's work, there are many similarities. All that I have watched (Taylor's, Lana Del Rey's, and Justin Bieber's) have opening monologues, a similar tone, and similar scenery. Stop trying to make money off of Taylor by writing articles slamming her when she hasn't done anything wrong. The director's vision is what you see on screen, and THAT is why all these artists' video resemble one another.
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Posted at 4:58 PM on December 18, 2012
She did copy Rihanna… blatantly. I hate T. Swift, and have since she came out with her first teenie-bopper LAME song. She is so UNORIGINAL it isn't funny. She can't even decide what music genre she belongs to anymore. Definitely straying away from the country track… which might be a bad idea.
Posted at 8:52 AM on December 18, 2012
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You are correct…Taylor is no virginal princess. Allow me to rephrase: I'm fairly certain Taylor Swift has no need to rip off ideas from a woman who constantly smokes pot, runs around half naked, and doesn't have enough sense to stay away from Chris Brown (even though I'm willing to bet she's every bit as volatile as he is).
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Just some girl.
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How could she be the one copying when the artists have nothing to do with it? IT's the director, he "copies" himself for every video he makes (see his videos for Lana Del Ray, Rihanna, and Taylor, all the same) it's his style, he's the one copying himself. Not Taylor or anyone else.
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He's copying Melina Matsoukas' style….Melina directed "We Found Love" (and S&M, Rude Boy, Hard, and Rockstar 101).
Anthony Mandler directed: Shut Up And Drive, Rehab, Disturbia, Diamonds, Only Girl and many other Rihanna videos.
Anthony Mandler directed "Starships", yet was that similar to Rihanna's videos? Nope. Taylor obviously had some sort of say into this video and "We Found Love" was obviously her inspiration.
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Metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is generally incurable. However, 10–20-year relapse-free survival of MBC is approximately 2%, implying that at least a small subset of MBC patients achieve prolonged survival. We therefore analyzed long-term outcome in a particular subset, i.e., oligometastatic breast cancer (OMBC).
Data of OMBC subjects (N = 75) treated in our institution from April 1980 to March 2010 were retrospectively analyzed. OMBC was identified as: one or 2 organs involved with metastatic lesions (excluding the primary lesion resectable by surgery), fewer than 5 lesions per metastasized organ, and lesion diameter less than 5 cm. Patients were generally treated with systemic chemotherapy first, and those who achieved complete response (CR) or partial response (PR) were further treated, if applicable, with local therapy (surgical or radiation therapy) to maintain CR or to induce no evidence of clinical disease (NED), with additional systemic therapy.
Median follow-up duration was 103 (6–329) months. Single or 2 organs were involved in, respectively, 44 (59%) and 31 (41%) cases with metastatic lesions, 48% of which were visceral. In cases where effects of systemic therapy, possibly in combination with other treatments, were evaluated (N = 68), CR or PR was achieved in 33 (48.5%) or 32 (47.1%), respectively, with overall response rate (ORR: CR + PR) of 95.6% (N = 65). In cases receiving multidisciplinary treatment (N = 75), CR or NED (CR/NED), or PR was induced in 48 (64.0%) or 23 (30.7%) cases, respectively, with ORR (CR/NED + PR) of 94.7% (N = 71). CR rates (60.5%) with systemic therapy and CR/NED rates (79.5%) with multidisciplinary treatment were significantly better in subjects with a single involved organ than in those with two involved organs (P = 0.047 and 0.002, systemic only or multidisciplinary treatments, respectively).
Medians estimated by Kaplan–Meier method were: overall survival (OS) of 185.0 months and relapse-free interval (RFI) of 48.0 months. Estimated outcomes were: OS rates (OSR) of 59.2% at 10 years and 34.1% at 20 years, and relapse-free rates (RFR) of 27.4% at 10 years and 20 years. No disease progression was observed after 101.0 months as RFR. Cases with single organ involvement (N = 44) showed significantly better outcomes (OSR of 73% at 10 years and 52% at 20 years, RFR of 42% at 10 years and 20 years). Those who received local therapies (N = 35) also showed better prognosis: OSR of 82% at 10 years and 53% at 20 years, RFR of 38% at 10 years and 20 years. Three cases (4%) survived for their lifetime without relapse after achieving CR or NED, our definition of clinical cure.
Multivariate analysis revealed factors favoring better prognosis as: none for OS, and single organ involvement with metastasis, administration of local treatment, and shorter disease-free interval (DFI) (P = 0.030, 0.039, and 0.042, respectively) for RFR. Outcomes in OMBC in literature were OSR of 35–73% at 10 years and 26–52% at 20 years, and RFR of 27–42% at 10 years and 26–42% at 20 years.
The present analyses clearly indicate that OMBC is a distinct subgroup with long-term prognosis superior to MBC, with reasonable provability for clinical cure. Further prospective studies to better characterize OMBC are warranted to improve prognosis in MBC.
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- Title
- Possible clinical cure of metastatic breast cancer: lessons from our 30-year experience with oligometastatic breast cancer patients and literature review
- Journal
Breast Cancer
Volume 19, Issue 3 , pp 218-237
- Cover Date
- 2012-07-01
- 10.1007/s12282-012-0347-0
- Print ISSN
- 1340-6868
- Online ISSN
- 1880-4233
- Publisher
- Springer Japan
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Oligometastatic breast cancer
- Metastatic breast cancer
- Relapse-free survival
- Cure
- Clinical cure
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Tadashi Kobayashi (1)
- Tamotsu Ichiba (1)
- Toshikazu Sakuyama (1)
- Yasuhiro Arakawa (1)
- Eijiroh Nagasaki (1)
- Keisuke Aiba (1)
- Hiroko Nogi (2)
- Kazumi Kawase (2)
- Hiroshi Takeyama (2)
- Yasuo Toriumi (2)
- Ken Uchida (2)
- Masao Kobayashi (3)
- Chihiro Kanehira (3)
- Masafumi Suzuki (4)
- Naomi Ando (5)
- Kazuhiko Natori (6)
- Yasunobu Kuraishi (6)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Clinical Oncology and Hematology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan
- 2. Department of Breast and Endocrine Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan
- 3. Department of Therapeutic Radiology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan
- 4. Department of Pathology, The Jikei University School of Medicine, 3-25-8, Nishi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan
- 5. Department of Pharmacology, The Jikei University Hospital, 3-25-8, Nishi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461, Japan
- 6. Department of Hematology and Oncology, Toho University Omori Medical Center, 6-11-1, Omori-Nishi, Ota-ku, Tokyo, 143-8541, Japan


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