A variety of tumor characteristics can provide prognostic information useful in managing the patient with primary breast cancer. Some of these characteristics are firmly established, whereas others are observer dependent or require prospective validation. No single characteristic, however, is likely to fully define which patient with primary breast cancer is destined to relapse. This clinical d...

Copyright: © 2012 Chirila M. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. In a European population the incidence of thyroid carcinomas varies between 1.75/100000 population for males and 6.38/100000 populat...

OBJECTIVE To identify predictors of prognosis and trial outcomes in prospective studies of people with chronic headache. METHODS This was a systematic review of published literature in peer-reviewed journals. We included (1) randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions for chronic headache that reported subgroup analyses and (2) prospective cohort studies, published in English, since ...

The ability of traditional and newer molecular-based prognostic factors to predict the outcome of prostate cancer is of considerable interest to urologists, pathologists, and patients. In this review, a series of traditional and newer molecular-based prognostic factors are considered, including those that have achieved widespread use, newer tests that are beginning to be used in clinical practi...

Endometrial carcinoma is the third most common carcinoma of the female genital tract in Singapore. Although most endometrial carcinomas are detected while still at low stage, there is still a significant mortality from the disease. It is desirable that patients at high risk of relapse are identified early for consideration for additional treatment. Some information required for management can b...

During a meningococcal (group A) epidemic, 47 Nigerian children with acute meningococcaemia without meningitis were studied. Their mortality rate was 43% compared with 8% during the whole epidemic. Those presenting with coma and shock had a mortality of 93%, but without shock or coma mortality was only 6%. Coma or shock occurring alone carried an intermediate prognosis. The outcome correlated w...

UNLABELLED The aim of this study is to evaluate effective prognostic factors in the evolution of patients with retroperitoneal fibrosis and to establish the validity of fractal analysis in determining the disease severity in these patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS This study included 19 patients (M/F: 5/14) treated for idiopathic retroperitoneal fibrosis and bilateral obstructive renal failure b...

Identifying prognostic factors in rectal cancer is very valuable for choosing the method of treatment. Prognostic factors play an important role in making decision of margin of surgery, treating with preor postoperative radiochemotherapy. In last few years, apart from traditional clinical and histopathological factors, also genetic, biochemical and immunological factors there are taken in the c...

● Background.—Under the auspices of the College of American Pathologists, a multidisciplinary group of clinicians, pathologists, and statisticians considered prognostic and predictive factors in prostate cancer and stratified them into categories reflecting the strength of published evidence and taking into account the expert opinions of the Prostate Working Group members. Materials and Methods...

Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is among the neoplastic diseases that has the best long-term outcome after cytotoxic treatment. Cure rates approach 80-90%; however, 15-20% of patients will be resistant to therapy (primary refractory) or relapse after treatment. Prognostic factors should help to stratify treatment according to the risk profile and identify patients at risk for failure. Significance of pro...