Our goal was to project potential life expectancy (LE) gains that could be achieved by use of such a test.
Malignant melanoma is one of the most challenging cancers to treat, resulting in highest per-death loss of years of potential life expectancy with the exception of adult leukaemia (Seetharamu et al, 2009).
Notably, extensive counselling should be offered to all women who consider prophylactic surgery, including a detailed explanation of the cancer risk, complications associated with surgery, aesthetic outcome, quality of life issues, and potential life expectancy gain.
Cohen, et al. predicted that a 30-year old woman remaining thrombocytopenic due to ITP would lose 20.4 years (14.9 quality-adjusted life years) of her potential life expectancy [ 7].
These women, with long potential life expectancies, stand to benefit most from preventive measures and are the target population for chemopreventive agents [ 23].
For an older individual with breast cancer it is critical that all management decisions take into account physiological age, life expectancy, potential risks versus absolute benefits, treatment tolerance, patient preference and potential barriers to treatment.
Expected findings were not stated to avoid the potential effect of expectancy bias on the test results [ 57].
Improved guidance and warning of upstream freeway split with an optional lane where there is the potential of drivers' expectancy violation.
Presence of diabetes, need for coronary revascularization, absence of clinical contraindications to prolonged double antiplatelet therapy, and potential long life expectancy were the only criteria for study entry.
This can be attributed to unclear advantages of radiotherapy in this population when life expectancy, potential toxicity and comorbidities are taken in to account.
