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To identify patients with prostate carcinoma who likely have lymph node involvement and would benefit from staging lymphadenectomy prior to definitive local therapy, the authors compared the ability of several predictive staging algorithms and a radiolabeled monoclonal antibody scan to predict lymphatic metastases prior to treatment.

We sought to investigate prognostic factors associated with colon carcinoid tumors and create a predictive staging system to accurately estimate prognosis.

Finally, an important question remains: does a better predictive staging system have consequences for preoperative decision making?

The resulting corrected scores were used in the benchmarking and predictive stages of our methodology.

High (>15.6 μg ml−1) preoperative serum SAA values in patients otherwise clinically diagnosed with early-stage USPC were predictive for stage III and stage IV disease in 50% (four out of eight) and 91% (10 out of 11) of the USPC patients, respectively.

selection stage, predictive state, measurement stage.

A 16-bit switched predictive three-stage vector quantizer was used to encode estimation residues.

It has been argued that the dominance of predictive four-stage travel demand models and data requirements has resulted in most representations of travel behaviour being simply a projection of present-day travel behaviour.

Income seemed to be predictive of stage at diagnosis for only Asians.

The effects of such a combined strategy could be: 1. a tumor- and patient-orientated predictive cancer-staging system with the stratification of different forms of personalized therapy and 2. the development of a standardized multivariable response evaluation system with the consequence of future standardized therapy modifications (individualized cancer strategy).

The iterative process can be divided into three main stages: (i) selection stage,   (ii) predictive state,   (iii) measurement stage.  .