Inclusion criteria were: (1) available digitally stored CT scans taken within 30 days pre-operatively for initial pretherapeutic staging and suitable for adequate image analysis; (2) presence of a frozen serum sample collected at time of diagnosis (IRB approval number 366/2003 –Medical University of Vienna; written informed consent was given).

For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Not many dared to speak out openly against the dialecticalization of biology (14, p. 81). The majority of scientists limited themselves to statements concerning the materialistic direction of their research.

The meeting has been moved back an hour. It was at 3 o'clock; now it's at 4 o'clock.