Although immunohistochemistry is widely used, its usefulness in predicting the clinical benefit of panitumumab appears limited, probably because of several factors like the absence of a standardized scoring system and the variety on EGFR expression.
The results are striking: although the omics score was derived using the whole population, the difference in its usefulness in predicting the survival times for male and female patients is huge.
A huge number of the millions of SNP's that have been found so far are expected to have little usefulness in predicting disease susceptibility because they occur in regions of DNA with no known function.
To evaluate the accuracy of prenatal sonography (U/S) in determining the lower uterine segment (LUS) thickness in women with previous cesarean section (CS) and to assess its usefulness in predicting the risk of uterine rupture during a trial of vaginal birth.
Because CTCs that display stem cell characteristics may initiate successful metastases, it is important to characterize these cells, which are easily accessible in peripheral blood, for their usefulness in predicting cancer progression, metastasis, and treatment response.
The authors examined ONJ incidence in four additional clinical trials involving patients with osteopenia or OP who were treated with ZOL, and they analyzed levels of the bone resorption marker serum β C-telopeptide (S-CTx) to assess its usefulness in predicting the risk of developing ONJ.
In the past, attempts at using biomarkers that are not specific to the disease or specific allergen(s) in question have often shown a lack of usefulness in predicting future events.
However, its usefulness in predicting outcome of patients with candidemia has not been evaluated.
Despite all these variables being associated with suicidal behavior, their usefulness in predicting future suicidal behavior still remains unsolved [ 15].
C-reactive protein (CRP) and low albumin are associated with systemic inflammation, and this study aims to assess their usefulness in predicting readiness for discharge from the ICU.
Here, each network is weighted according to its usefulness in predicting annotations for a group of genes that share a known specific function.
