While the maths may at times prove too technical for the lay reader, the strength of the book lies in its many individual stories and case histories.

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The novels present themselves (with the exception of the latest) like case histories, full of flaming rage, lapse, failure, and tenuous psychic success.

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In order to realize the goal of true personalized cancer treatments, much more data will have to be made available and paired with rich clinical information on the case histories of the patients from which the samples come.

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Artists Gillian Wearing and Edward De Waal received OBEs while novelist Kate Atkinson, whose book Case Histories has been adapted for BBC One, was made an MBE.

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The medical recommendations it creates based on a learning process of digesting case histories from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), Cleveland Clinic, and other institutions can only be as good as the data that are input and the decision-making processes it is charged to recreate.

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The detailed case histories of malfeasance, which once made the reports such gripping reading, were reduced sharply last year and are gone entirely in the report for 1998, published this week.

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