Sentences with phrase «predicting recurrence»

Improving Social Work Practice Through the Use of Technology and Advanced Research Methods Schwartz, Jones, Schwartz, & Obradovic (2008) In Child Welfare Research: Advances for Practice and Policy View Abstract Reviews the use of technology in social welfare, discusses promising technological developments, explores the potential of actuarial risk assessment, and describes an innovative computational process for predicting the recurrence of child maltreatment.

«PSA is a very good tool in terms of predicting the recurrence of prostate cancer in an individual who's undergone a prostatectomy,» said Sridharan.

Clearly, more accurate tools are necessary for predicting recurrence among that cohort.»

So PSA is great tool after prostatectomy in terms of predicting recurrence if the level starts to climb up again, indicating that the cancer has spread to other sites in the body.

«The idea behind our method is that, if we can predict recurrence after prostatectomy, chances are we can predict recurrence at a biopsy level, before any radical surgery is performed.

Urolithiasis Calcium oxalate stones, the most common type of kidney stone, have a microbiome that differs from the urinary microbiome leading researchers to question whether the stone's own bacterial makeup could help to predict recurrence of future kidney stones.

«Altered microenvironment promotes progression of pre-invasive breast cancer: myoepithelial expression of integrin DCIS identifies high - risk patients and predicts recurrence» by Michael D Allen et al. published in Clinical Cancer Research on Tuesday 3 December.

Once done, I hope to be able to offer an approach which will better predict the recurrence time of rare rainfall events in the the face of increasing temperatures.

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Scientists use cancer biomarkers to predict a patient's risk of developing cancer, their prognosis and response to therapy and their chance of disease recurrence.

«Among individuals who undergo prostatectomy, there are a few statistical tools that take various clinical parameters into consideration and then predict the risk for recurrence,» said Sridharan.

«14 -3-3 sigma expression levels can help predict overall and recurrence - free survival rates, tumor glucose uptake, and metabolic gene expression in breast cancer patients,» said Lee.

Now researchers from The University of Manchester and University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust — both part of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre — have investigated the role of a molecule known as FAK in controlling the resistance of DCIS to radiation and in predicting disease recurrence.

The additional seven patients lived incrementally longer than one would have predicted based on the number of previous treatments they received and the multifocal nature of the GBM tumor recurrences.

«In this study we've shown five distinct ways — by quantifying tumor burden, identifying disease subtype, cataloging mutations, predicting transformation and providing early warnings of recurrence — that circulating tumor DNA can yield potentially clinically useful information,» said Diehn.

«Failure to control localized cancer, confined to the prostate, predicts a poor clinical outcome — PSA recurrence, the spread of cancer beyond the prostate and the likelihood of dying from prostate cancer.»

The research, by a team at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, also suggests that the size of the brain's right anterior insula may predict the risk of future bouts of depression, potentially giving researchers an anatomical marker to identify those at high risk for recurrence.

These subtype data are then combined with a standard pathology variable to deliver a «risk of recurrence» score that predicts the likelihood of that patient's disease returning within the next 10 years.

«I think the story is beginning to emerge that depression may predict changes in the brain, and these brain changes predict risk for recurrence.»

Using advanced high - throughput technology, the laboratory has developed gene signature profiles to help predict disease recurrence and response to medical therapies.

Dr. Moscat's laboratory, in collaboration with that of Dr. Karin at UCSD, has established for the fist time that p62 is necessary and sufficient for HCC induction in mice and that its high expression level in non-tumor human liver predicts rapid HCC recurrence after curative ablation.

SEATTLE, Feb. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced the publication of a landmark study in which Danish researchers used the Prosigna ® Breast Cancer Assay risk of recurrence (ROR) score to accurately predict rates of 10 - year distant recurrence (DR) of cancer in a comprehensive and population - based cohort including all postmenopausal women in Denmark with early - stage hormone receptor (HR)- positive, Her - 2 negative breast cancer who received 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy according to nationwide guidelines between 2000 and 2003.

Collectively, these findings illustrate the potential and reach of liquid biopsies in both identifying patients suitable for targeted treatment as well as predicting cancer recurrence.

A gene linked to bowel cancer recurrence and shortened survival could help predict outcomes for patients with the gene - and take scientists a step closer to development of personalized treatments, reveals research in the journal Gut.

DENVER — Three manuscripts published in the recent issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), explored the versatility of liquid biopsies by identifying EGFR mutations using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in urine and plasma and examining circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in plasma to predict the risk of lung cancer recurrence after surgical resection.

«This study provides us with an easy way to predict that certain patients have a higher risk of recurrence and thus might benefit from closer surveillance and additional interventions,» said Dignam.

That's in comparison to an antibiotic called metronidazole, which is predicted to be 70 - 80 % effective — with a recurrence rate of 33 % at the three - month mark and 49 - 66 % after one year, according to the study.

The recurrence of extreme - to - heavy precipitation is notoriously hard to predict, yet cost — benefit estimates of mitigation and successful climate adaptation will need reliable information about percentiles for daily precipitation.