Sentence examples for prognostic affects from inspiring English sources

EpCAM expression has divergent prognostic affects: in some tumour types a negative correlation was found, in most a seemingly neutral effect, and in some cancer types a positive correlation was found (Baeuerle and Gires, 2007).

They assess which part of the prognostics system affects its performance that helps in performance improvement.

In conclusion, our study indicates that advanced T stage is a significant prognostic factor affecting survival, and poor differentiation is a significant prognostic factor affecting disease-free survival in ampullary adenocarcinoma.

A recent evaluation of over 1000 patients with advanced oesophagogastric cancer identified several prognostic factors affecting survival outcomes (Chau et al, 2004) (the Royal Marsden Hospital Prognostic Index), which have been validated in a subsequent data set (Chau et al, 2009b).

Turning to prognostic factors affecting PFS and OS, hypoalbuminaemia, implying poor nutritional status, was a poor prognostic factor for PFS in this study.

We conducted an analysis examining the impact of how different distributions of a dichotomous prognostic factor affect the power (and sample size needed to obtain 80% power) to detect an interaction between the prognostic factor and treatment in RCTs.

The purpose of this study is to identify prognostic factors affecting outcome in ossicular chain reconstruction (OCR).

This study evaluates: (1) the change in whole salivary secretion rates of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients before, during, and after radiotherapy, especially during the first week of irradiation; (2) the recovery capability of salivary glands up to 2 years postirradiation; and (3) the possible prognostic factors affecting salivary gland functions.

Prognostic Factors affect patient's survival and modify the therapeutic strategies.

The number of chemotherapy cycles given was a significant prognostic factor affecting overall survival (Table 2 >).

Univariate analyses were performed to investigate the prognostic factors affecting disease progression and death (Table 2).