Immediate ability to research the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis online from reputable sources.

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But the goal here is finding the best way to capture the symptoms and problems that an individual has, to map those symptoms onto disorders that are valid, and which then inform prognosis and treatment and further study.

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But he has never revealed any details of his treatment or prognosis, and no one has any idea whether he will survive this term.

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This leaves us with a grim prognosis and no treatment plan.

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Further complicating the landscape is the realization in the past decade that, rather than being a single disease, breast cancer is at least five distinct diseases, with (to some extent at least) different risk factors, pathology, prognosis, and treatment.

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Overall, six out of 10 children are successfully treated through treatment such as surgery and chemotherapy - but the prognosis is not as good for children with advanced forms of the disease.

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Early diagnosis is of paramount importance to the subsequent prognosis, treatment, quality of life and ultimate survival of cancer patients.

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Five years from now, he suggests, biochip analysis might be used routinely to choose the right treatment for a particular patient, to forecast how effective that treatment will be, and even to estimate the long-term prognosis.

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There are no proper studies that address long term prognosis in patients with epilepsy but it follows that proper treatment results in good seizure control and this in turn leads to a smaller likelihood of sudden death.

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