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In the absence of definitive population demographic data, specific habitat characteristics may offer predictive potential for inferring population characteristics and future viability.
We demonstrate here that serum biomarker profiles may offer predictive power concerning treatment response and outcome in the neoadjuvant setting.
Antepartum maternal behaviour may offer predictive value as an indicator of an activated stress response and postpartum maternal care.
In addition, an increasing body of experimental evidence indicates the possibility that EMVs may offer predictive, diagnostic, and prognostic information for metabolic diseases, such as type II diabetes and obesity.
Expression of miRNAs may offer prognostic and predictive information in several solid tumours.
Serum circulating cytokines, growth factors and angiogenesis-related molecules, are hypothesised to be valid markers of the tumour microenvironment angiogenic profile and may offer prognostic and predictive information beyond conventional clinico-pathological indicators (Poon et al, 2001).
It would appear from this uncertainty that, although these particular biomarkers have shown the most promise in terms of diagnosis and prognosis of breast cancer, they may not offer predictive power for chemotherapy response.
Approaches including total glycolytic volume [63], texture features (descriptive measures of tracer uptake heterogeneity) [17,36] and even the simple method of combining tumour diameter with SUVmax to produce a 'diameter-SUV index' [31] may offer better predictive and prognostic utility.
The BB model may offer superior predictive properties amongst mapping algorithms considered and may be more useful when predicting EQ-5D-3L at poorer health states.
Multianalyte profiles may offer greater predictive power for neoadjuvant treatment response than the individual biomarkers currently in use.
Sperm function tests may offer greater predictive power than traditional semen analysis but require strict validation prior to use in routine clinical practice (Lefievre et al., 2007).
