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Prognosis and prediction in a Facebook world
Author(s) -
Stadler Walter M.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.24593
Subject(s) - nomogram , medicine , prognostics , intensive care medicine , oncology , medical physics , data mining , computer science
Nomograms are a useful tool for improving prognostics for individual patients and could have real benefits in terms of the number of patients exposed to toxic adjuvant therapy. However, it is far more important to develop and validate predictive markers.