Sentence examples for the difficulty of prognosis from inspiring English sources

Besides the difficulty of prognosis, therapy of ovarian carcinomas has reached scarce improvement, as a consequence of lack of efficacy and development of drug-resistance.

Although conventional colonoscopy can indicate the degree of inflammation in the colonic mucosa, there are sometimes discrepancies between colonoscopic and histological findings in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases at a clinically inactive stage, resulting in the difficulty of prognosis assessment [ 13, 14].

Criteria for selecting one procedure over another often involved training and surgeon experience and those factors normally considered important in defining the difficulty of treatment and prognosis of the patient.

The difficulty of predicting the prognosis and clinical behavior of these lesions has been repeatedly stressed.

An understanding of all these prognostic factors and an appreciation of the difficulty of accurately predicting prognosis in an individual are of particular importance when counselling the patient about fertility interventions (see below).

The difficulty of "confounding by indication" whereby the prognosis partly determines the choice of treatment, is potentially a significant problem for non randomised trials such as this [ 29].

The high rate of dropout during follow-up indicates the difficulty of determining long-term (> 25 years) prognoses.

The high mortality and poor prognosis of lung cancer are mainly due to the difficulty of early diagnosis.

"The difficulty of correlating,….

The difficulty of baseball is imperious".

Janet Malcolm on the difficulty of writing autobiography.