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The value of prognostic factors in prostatic cancer. 1994

J Schubert, and S Kowalik

Department of Urology, Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany.

Several prognostic parameters of prostatic carcinoma needed to help guide treatment in individual patients are discussed. Tumour volume, nodal and bone metastases, grading, prostate-specific antigen and DNA ploidy have been correlated with prognosis. Recent studies have analysed tumour volume in detail. However, currently there is no single prognostic factor which can predict tumour aggressiveness on an individual patient basis to rationalize decisions. Multivariate analyses are therefore in progress to determine independent prognostic variables.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008297	Male		Males
D011379	Prognosis	A prediction of the probable outcome of a disease based on a individual's condition and the usual course of the disease as seen in similar situations.	Prognostic Factor,Prognostic Factors,Factor, Prognostic,Factors, Prognostic,Prognoses
D011471	Prostatic Neoplasms	Tumors or cancer of the PROSTATE.	Cancer of Prostate,Prostate Cancer,Cancer of the Prostate,Neoplasms, Prostate,Neoplasms, Prostatic,Prostate Neoplasms,Prostatic Cancer,Cancer, Prostate,Cancer, Prostatic,Cancers, Prostate,Cancers, Prostatic,Neoplasm, Prostate,Neoplasm, Prostatic,Prostate Cancers,Prostate Neoplasm,Prostatic Cancers,Prostatic Neoplasm
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D015999	Multivariate Analysis	A set of techniques used when variation in several variables are studied simultaneously. In statistics, multivariate analysis is interpreted as any analytic method that allows simultaneous study of two or more dependent variables.	Analysis, Multivariate,Multivariate Analyses