prognostic factor
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prognostic
adjective
uk/prɒɡˈnɒs.tɪk/us/prɑːɡˈnɑːs.tɪk/
relating to a doctor's judgment of the likely or expected development of a disease or of the chances of ...
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factor
noun[C]
uk/ˈfæk.tər/us/ˈfæk.tɚ/
a fact or situation that influences the result ...
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Oneprognosticfactorhighlighted by this review has been nodal involvement.
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Since we performed separate analyses for eachprognosticfactor, the intercorrelations between the prognostic factors were not considered in our results.
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The power calculations were performed forprognosticfactorstudies; predictive studies require different considerations for sample size.
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Separate analyses were performed for eachprognosticfactorin order to obtain a respectable degree of accuracy considering the size of our patient sample.
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Aprognosticfactoris any variable that provides information about outcome.
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The most importantprognosticfactorin survival or recurrence after potentially curative surgery is the number of involved axillary lymph nodes.
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The strongestprognosticfactorfor survival is complete resection of the primary tumor.
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Numerous studies have shown that karyotype is an independentprognosticfactorfor response to therapy and overall survival.
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A predictive factor is a type ofprognosticfactorthat provides information about the outcome for a specific treatment.
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Fetal blood viral load could be an important potentialprognosticfactorand further studies are warranted to evaluate its predictive value.
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This method not only reduced the risk of making incorrect inferences but also permitted a more accurate assessment of the effect of each identifiedprognosticfactor.
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Maron et a/.1 reported that nine of 20 infants died within 1 year of presentation and congestive heart failure was seen as a poorprognosticfactor.
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Combined with decreased glucocorticoid receptor sensitivity and tissue response to corticosteroids, this adrenal insufficiency constitutes a negativeprognosticfactorfor intensive care patients.
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The attainability of radical surgical ablation seems the most importantprognosticfactor(10).
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The most significantprognosticfactoris initial surgical treatment.
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The search for aprognosticfactoris difficult, because of the small number of patients.
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As in dogs, tumor size is an importantprognosticfactor, although for tumors less than three centimeters the individual size is less predictive.
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The number of crescentic glomeruli is an importantprognosticfactorin determining whether the patient will develop chronic renal disease.
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