prognostic marker

collocation in English

meaningsofprognosticandmarker

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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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marker
noun[C]
uk
/ˈmɑː.kər/us
/ˈmɑːr.kɚ/
a sign that shows where ...
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Without conclusive statistical analysis, thrombocytopenia cannot be seen as an independentprognosticmarker.
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Aprognosticmarkergives information on patient outcome in the total population.
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Unlike other methods maintrac does not use the single cell count as aprognosticmarker, rather maintrac utilizes the dynamics of the cell count.
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To examine the association of putative prognostic markers with outcome and the interaction of these markers with treatment.
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This emphasises the fact that the identification of significant prognostic markers in a multivariate analysis does not necessarily mean that the model usefully predicts response.
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In ovarian cancer, p27 negative tumors progressed in 23 months compared to 85 months in p27 positive tumors and thus could be used as aprognosticmarker.
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Further study of prognostic markers could help us design tests that could assist neonatal clinicians to identify patients with poor prognosis and who are expected to deteriorate rapidly.
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Data establishing epigenetic processes as important regulators of senescence and tumourigenesis also suggest that such epigenetic modifications may be useful as prognostic markers.
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Predictive biomarkers help to assess the most likely response to a particular treatment type, while prognostic markers shows the progression of disease with or without treatment.
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Prognostic markers such as these are always generated by retrospective analyses, and it is likely that new treatment developments will improve the outlook for those with traditionally poor-risk disease.
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