According to the Motzer classification, 32% patients were low risk, 48% were intermediate risk and 20% were poor risk.
Using the prognostic risk categories (Beyer et al, 1996) (see definitions below), 20 patients were good risk, 12 were intermediate and four were poor risk.
According to international standards, cytogenetic and molecular examination determined that this form of leukemia was "poor risk" at the time of diagnosis.
In our study, all of the RCC patients who were poor risk and/or had high grade or sarcomatoid disease achieved a PR or SD with sunitinib plus gemcitabine.
NEW YORK — Society women are poor risks for insurance, according to the delegates at the annual Congress of American Life Insurance Companies at Chicago.
The data showed that people who buy red meat and milk are good car insurance risks while people who buy pasta, spirits and who fuel their cars at night are poor risks.
The excesses in real estate and banking here were profound, with banks lending at an astonishing pace, often to customers who were poor risks and did not understand the fine print.
Even acknowledging that the Medici bank had to meet political as well as strictly economic ends, with loans to political allies who might be poor risks financially, it remains true that it was inadequately supervised and, for this reason, close to failure by 1492.
Example: Borrowers who enter their name in all caps in the online application are poorer risks.
The prognosis of patients hospitalized with acute heart failure (AHF) is poor and risk stratification may help clinicians guide care.
