Sentence examples for prognostic phenomenon from inspiring English sources

Whether the favourable prognosis of KRAS wild-type patients is a prognostic phenomenon (e.g. independent of erlotinib treatment) or a predictive factor for erlotinib efficacy could not be clarified as erlotinib was applied in both trial arms.

If this association is a prognostic or a predictive phenomenon remains unclear, as all patients treated within AIO-PK0104 received an erlotinib-containing 1st-line regimen [ 7].

Illness is often associated with anxiety, but few data exist about the prognostic significance of this phenomenon.

Moreover, we found that SNORA70F was significantly down-regulated in poor prognostic subgroups and this phenomenon was associated with the down-regulation of its host gene COBLL1.

With opportunities to assess and treat the MBPS increasing, it has never been more important to establish the prognostic significance of this phenomenon.

It may be of prognostic significance that the phenomenon of MDM2-mediated P53 inactivation has a predilection to occur more often in retroperitoneal liposarcomas, compared to those that arise in the extremities [ 12].

An important and consistently observed phenomenon in genomic prognostic marker research is that these predictors provide independent prognostic information when considered together with routine clinical characteristics (for example, tumour size, nodal status, histological grade) in multivariate analysis [ 2, 9].

Once the patient survives the initial stage, the prognostic value of this transient phenomenon seems limited.

Predictive biomarkers can encompass both prognostic and predictive components, a phenomenon which may hamper the detection of a beneficial effect from treatment, unless the prognostic element has been investigated and mapped [ 15].

Besides stage and grade, important prognostic factors related to molecular phenomena exist for many types of cancer.

But in stage III colon cancer, prognostic inconsistency is a well-known phenomenon.