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Study findings on clinical oncology are outlined in reports from Erasmus Medical Center

Published in Clinical Oncology Week, August 16th, 2010

Scientists discuss in 'Model-assisted predictions on prognosis in HNSCC: do we learn' new findings in clinical oncology. According to recent research from Rotterdam, Netherlands, "Dedicated software packages incorporating prognostic models are meant to aid physicians in making accurate predictions of prognosis. This study concerns 742 predictions of 5-year survival on consecutive newly diagnosed patients with head-and neck squamous cell carcinoma."

"The 5-year survival predictions made by the physicians are not compared with actual survival, but with a prediction made by OncologIQ, a dedicated software package. We used a linear regression and a linear mixed-effects...

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