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.

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

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.