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Definition of 'Risk Assessment'

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)

Common names: 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

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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...

 

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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

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