0 relating to a doctor's judgment of the likely or expected development of a disease or of the chances of getting better --
Since we performed separate analyses for each prognostic factor, the intercorrelations between the prognostic factors were not considered in our results.
Particular attention was paid to the prognostic influence of palliative surgery, sepsis, extracardiac malformations, gastrointestinal disease, arrhythmias and sudden death.
Among the non-modifiable prognostic factors that were associated with the case status in our study, few were unexpected.
The benefits of axillary dissection are staging, prognostic information used to make treatment decisions, and prevention of axillary recurrence.
Clearly the hazards of any intervention are more likely to outweigh the potential symptomatic and prognostic benefits in patients at low risk.
This is suggested by the fact that the most common prognostic texts, whether lunar or calendrical, are those devoted to medical matters.
The potential roles of tenascin as prognostic tumour markers are discussed.
Further research is required to define prognostic models to select patients most likely to respond.
