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A number of reports indicate that evaluation performed with MCTS is rather predictive of the efficiency of new antitumor compounds in patients and has proven in numerous studies to be of tremendous interest in characterizing the effects of chemotherapeutics [ 6].

Individuals who met only the updated MetS criteria (and not the original AHA/NHLBI-criteria) demonstrated higher cIMT compared with subjects who did not have MetS by either criteria, indicating that the more sensitive updated classification is not spurious but rather predictive of early vascular disease.

This indicates that CAIX expression is not prognostic – being associated with disease progression irrespective of treatment – but rather predictive, –predicting which patients will benefit from adjuvant treatment and who will not.

However, it remains unclear whether LOH of 1p/19q is a prognostic biomarker for a more indolent tumor subtype that has fewer unfavorable mutations overall, rather than predictive of treatment sensitivity [ 62, 63].

This may, however, be a reflection of the prognostic rather than predictive value of CIMP+.

The observation in the present study that patients with MT KRAS tumours also had better outcomes when they experienced grade 2+ vs. grade 0/1 skin toxicity, is in line with other reports suggesting that EGFR-related skin toxicity may be a prognostic rather than predictive marker of outcome during therapy [ 25, 27].

Some investigators claim that EGFR mutations are prognostic rather than predictive, because subset analysis of TRIBUTE or INTACT trials (comparing platinum chemotherapy with chemotherapy plus EGFR-TKI) indicated that patients with lung cancer having EGFR mutations did better even in patients treated only with chemotherapy (Bell et al, 2005; Eberhard et al, 2005).

In conclusion, a distinction of the analysis presented here relative to those by other authors [ 3, 6] is that we sought to find genes that were predictive of recurrence rather than predictive of diseased versus nondiseased status.

Why MMI was more predictive of EU rather than Non-EU students' OSCEs is unclear.

The lack of association between the 3-month levels and CVEs indicates that high sC5b-9 levels during AMI, as a result of complement activation, are predictive of outcome rather than the constitutive level of sC5b-9.

This may be a possible explanation for the rather poor predictive performance of the ab6A model.