Risk Assessment
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Friday, November 20, 2009

Gene expression profiling: decoding breast cancer.

29 Nov 2009 Gene expression assays that are used in daily clinical practice for treating early breast cancer patients have been introduced in the clinic only recently. This review discusses the development of these arrays, summarizes the validation of those ... Read more...

mRNA expression profile of multidrug resistance genes in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Low expression levels associated with a higher risk of toxic death.

29 Nov 2009 BACKGROUND: Increased activity of multidrug resistance (MDR) genes has been associated with treatment failure in acute leukemias, although with controversial reports. The objective of the present study was to assess the expression profile of the ... Read more...

The preoperative positivity for serum hepatitis B e antigen did not affect overall survival after curative resection of hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma.

18 Nov 2009 BACKGROUND AND AIM: Previous studies have reported different risk factors for early and late intrahepatic recurrence after resection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, the prognostic significance of the risk factors for early and late ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Risk Assessment'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Gene expression profiling: decoding breast cancer. 29 Nov 2009
• mRNA expression profile of multidrug resistance genes in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Low expression levels associated with a higher risk of toxic death. 29 Nov 2009
• The preoperative positivity for serum hepatitis B e antigen did not affect overall survival after curative resection of hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma. 18 Nov 2009
• Children at risk for developmental coordination disorder: judgement of changes in action capabilities. 17 Nov 2009
• Risk of thyroid cancer in survivors of childhood cancer: results from the British Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 13 Nov 2009
• The Viracept-EMS case: impact and outlook. 10 Nov 2009
• Incidence of and risk factors for cognitive impairment in an early Parkinson disease clinical trial cohort. Nov 2009
• Triggering of nocturnal arrhythmias by sleep-disordered breathing events. Nov 2009
• Clinical outcome after 450 revascularization procedures for moyamoya disease. Clinical article. 30 Oct 2009
• ABC Surgical Risk Scale for skull base meningioma: a new scoring system for predicting the extent of tumor removal and neurological outcome. Clinical article. 30 Oct 2009
• Communication and consent. 30 Oct 2009
• A three-group model to predict mortality in emergent coronary artery bypass graft surgery. 30 Oct 2009
• Implementation of evidence-based prevention of falls in rehabilitation units: a staff's interactive approach. 30 Oct 2009
• Regarding "Prediction of 30-day mortality after endovascular repair or open surgery in patients with ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms". 30 Oct 2009
• Regarding "Identification of a genetic variant associated with abdominal aortic aneurysms on chromosome 3p12.3 by genome wide association". 30 Oct 2009
• The effect of left subclavian artery coverage on morbidity and mortality in patients undergoing endovascular thoracic aortic interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 30 Oct 2009
• The Society for Vascular Surgery Practice Guidelines: management of the left subclavian artery with thoracic endovascular aortic repair. 30 Oct 2009
• Invited commentary. 30 Oct 2009
• Invited commentary. 30 Oct 2009
• Laparoscopic-assisted treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysm requiring suprarenal cross-clamping. 30 Oct 2009

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Technical information about 'Risk Assessment'

Definition: The qualitative or quantitative estimation of the likelihood of adverse effects that may result from exposure to specified health hazards or from the absence of beneficial influences. (Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 1988)

Descriptor UI: D018570

Alternative terms: Risk Assessment; Assessments, Risk; Risk Assessments; Assessment, Risk; Risks and Benefits; Benefits and Risks; Benefit-Risk Assessment; Assessment, Benefit-Risk; Assessments, Benefit-Risk; Benefit Risk Assessment; Benefit-Risk Assessments; Risk-Benefit Assessment; Assessment, Risk-Benefit; Assessments, Risk-Benefit; Risk Benefit Assessment; Risk-Benefit Assessments;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: E05.318.740.600.800.715; N04.452.871.715; N05.715.360.750.625.700.690; N06.850.505.715; N06.850.520.830.600.800.715;

History Note: 95

Technical Notes: coord NIM with specific disease or other concept (IM); DF: RISK ASSESS