CA 125 levels, however, correctly predicted advanced stage 94% of the time.
Another predicted advance, though not so immediate, is that of personalized medicine -- treatment and preventive programs that are tailored to the individual based on a genomic analysis.
The origin of this discrepancy is a 1947 article by Clemence1, who used unconventional values for the astronomical unit (A) and the speed of light (c) in his calculation of the predicted advance.
Receiver-operator characteristic curves demonstrated that depth of invasion, lymph vascular space involvement, and grade accurately predicted advanced-stage disease 73%, 77% and 80% of the time, respectively.
Using a cut-off serum GGT value of 96.5 U/L, GGT predicted advanced fibrosis with 83% sensitivity and 69% specificity.
Independent of geographic location, MACC1 predicted advanced pT and pN-stages, high grade tumor budding, venous and lymphatic invasion (p < 0.05).
Angulo et al. found that the NFS, which consists of six variables (age, BMI, AAR, IFG/DM, platelet count, and albumin), reliably predicted advanced fibrosis in NAFLD patients [ 21].
It's a literature whose boundaries lie only at the limits of the human imagination, although it is arguably better at predicting social change than it is at envisaging scientific developments, of which its track record is lively, but not as accurate as one might wish (it wasn't great at predicting advances in technological miniaturisation).
HP predicts advances in 3D printing will change the way goods are transported.
To illustrate the idea, suppose Alice claims the ability to predict advances or declines in the stock market on a daily basis.
