In our study, preoperative GPS was also significantly predictive of OS in patients with ESCC (P = 0.037); however, the present data showed that only 1 patient had a GPS of 2, resulting in decreased benefit for predicting prognosis.
A recent study by Viale et al. [ 31] assessed the added benefit of PR for predicting response to chemo-endocrine therapy in ER+ breast cancer, and the investigators did not identify a significant interaction of PR status with chemotherapeutic regimen in predicting disease free survival.
Pier et al. (2014) demonstrated that the benefits of dynamic gestures for predicting performance on verbal mathematical proofs are over and above the effects of variations in speech.
Looking at the last two columns, one sees a clear benefit to using shrinkage for predicting the breeding value of phenotyped individuals, and this benefit increased with heritability.
Many believe that the lack of a validated biomarker for predicting benefit to antiangiogenic agents has severely limited the optimal clinical development of these agents.
The relative proportion of known hypoxia genes increased with increasing connectivity, C, score, confirming its benefit as a metric for predicting functional relationships.
These two reasons act to make electrical features of the patient intrinsically better candidates than mechanical features, for predicting benefit of biventricular pacing.
The website is part of an effort, sponsored by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (Iarpa), to understand the potential benefits of so-called crowdsourcing for predicting future events.
Whether or not there is a threshold makes a large difference to the estimate of attributable deaths, and the shape of the exposure response association is important for predicting the benefits of policies reducing exposure.
Although some reports have suggested that the DTH test is not an appropriate method for immune monitoring because of the difficulty to standardise it and the generation of a DTH response against non-antigenic compounds; other studies have showed that DTH test is a reproducible and cost-effective method for predicting clinical benefits (deVries et al, 2005).
