Besides investigations on etiology, epidemiology, and the evaluation of therapies, the
identification and assessment of prognostic factors constitutes one of the major tasks in …

Studies of new prognostic factors form an extensive part of the literature of oncology. Recent
examples published in this journal include studies of patients with primary cerebral …

This is an expository paper which reviews the rationale for determining prognostic factors
and the statistical methods for finding and allowing for such factors in the design and …

Numerous examples exist of prognostic factors that have been conclusively established and
that can segregate the target patient population into subgroups with vastly different …

Most types of human cancer are heterogeneous with regard to clinical features, natural
course, histologic, and molecular characteristics. Better diagnostic classification systems …

The authors report the establishment of a new Committee of the American Joint Committee
on Cancer that has two objectives as follows:(1) to review the methods available to estimate …

Categorizing prognostic variables is essential for their use in clinical decision‐making. Often
a single cutpoint that stratifies patients into high‐risk and low‐risk categories is sought …

Diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment are the three core elements of the art of medicine.
Modern medicine pays more attention to diagnosis and treatment but prognosis has been a …

Abstract The American Joint Committee on Cancer proposes the following criteria for
evaluating putative prognostic factors: they must be (1) significant,(2) independent, and (3) …

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