Scientists from Makerere University's hospital in Kampala, Uganda, along with American and Belgian scientists, have developed a formula, based on close questioning of patients, for predicting which ones are most likely to have treatment failure.
That early diagnosis could potentially save lives; however, few of those lesions go on to become tumors, and doctors have no good way of predicting which ones will.
More than 100 drugs have been approved to treat cancer, but predicting which ones will help a particular patient is an inexact science at best.
Predicting which ones will pose health or environmental hazards, however, has proven difficult.
He says the latest study of 200 patients was independent: Doctors sent in blind urine samples that Nymox processed and shipped back, predicting which ones belonged to Alzheimer's patients.
Thus, there are about 40%% of patients who still have residual cancer at the end of standard-dose radiotherapy and chemotherapy, but we have no means of predicting which ones.
It is difficult to predict which one will occur.
While there are many excellent treatments, it is difficult to predict which one will work for a given individual.
"So, I mean, I don't think you can predict which one of them is going to win this".
We don't even need to predict which one of these new technologies will capture the public's imagination.
Baseball playoffs are not random in the sense that your daughter's little-league team might win the World Series; they're contingent in the sense that, among the reasonable candidates for winning it, no one can safely predict which one will rule.
