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Breast Cancer
Nottingham Prognostic Index used to predict prognosis of breast cancer
January 5th, 2006
The Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) could be used to predict accurately the prognosis of breast cancer. 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...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2006-01-05)
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