Kansai Medical University
Nottingham Prognostic Index used to predict prognosis of breast cancer
Published in Lab Business Week, January 8th, 2006
According to a study from Japan, "The NPI is used to predict survival in patients with breast cancer. This index is based on tumor size, lymph node stage, and histological grade and allows the stratification of patients into three different prognostic groups."
"Our aim was to verify the effect of some prognostic variables on survival and to establish the independent influence of each of these variables by a survival regression analysis. We applied the NPI to the same group of patients to assess its predictive power and reproducibility. We...
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Source: Lab Business Week (2006-01-08)
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