Sentence examples for but rather predictive from inspiring English sources

This indicates that CAIX expression is not prognostic – being associated with disease progression irrespective of treatment – but rather predictive, –predicting which patients will benefit from adjuvant treatment and who will not.

More importantly, and unlike the 70-gene profiler developed by the Amsterdam group [ 5, 6], the NSABP recurrence score does not have pure prognostic value but rather predictive value regarding response to tamoxifen.

Individuals who met only the updated MetS criteria (and not the original AHA/NHLBI-criteria) demonstrated higher cIMT compared with subjects who did not have MetS by either criteria, indicating that the more sensitive updated classification is not spurious but rather predictive of early vascular disease.

In this hypothesis, PIK3CA mutations may increase hormonal therapy (tamoxifen) sensitivity and would not be a prognostic factor but rather a predictive factor for response.

Thus, our threshold values should not be regarded as appropriate use criteria, but rather as predictive tools for patient education and shared decision-making.

Rather, predictive modeling attempts to demonstrate possible outcomes derived from the parameters included, be they theoretical or actual.

A number of reports indicate that evaluation performed with MCTS is rather predictive of the efficiency of new antitumor compounds in patients and has proven in numerous studies to be of tremendous interest in characterizing the effects of chemotherapeutics [ 6].

Consequently, the reported differences are not due to a combined prognostic and predictive impact of TIMP-1 but rather a predominantly predictive one.

However, since this study was not focused on prognosis of patients with rectal cancer but rather on the predictive ability of tumor size on pT and pN stage, the lack of information of these and other prognostic factors only minimally affects the major results of this study.

Indeed, this work was not meant to show superior predictive performance, but rather to establish, within the predictive power of a dataset, ways to increase predictive versatility.

Other studies did not find infant temperament alone to be predictive, but rather that the combination of infant temperament with parental attitude or perception was predictive of behavioral problems later in childhood (Cameron 1978; Oberklaid et al. 1993; Wasserman et al. 1990).