The cluster of 234 genes contains many of the strongest individual genes for predicting survival.

The provision allows an adult Washington resident who has a six month predicted survival to self-administer lethal medication prescribed by a physician.

According to the model, factors predicting survival (n.b. the study quoted conversely refers to them as "5 adverse covariates") are:

The value of the study, he said, is that it provides a conservative baseline for predicting survival if the cancer receives little or no treatment.

A white blood cell count of less than 50,000 per microliter predicted improved leukemia-free survival in univariate analysis.

Site of disease and opportunistic infection predict survival in HIV-associated tuberculosis.

The mitotic index is an important prognostic factor predicting both overall survival and response to chemotherapy in most types of cancer.

A most significant finding was that overall promoter hypermethylation is associated with the progression and predicts significantly poor disease-free survival.

A formula used to predict survival in heart failure patients showed that statistically, Mr. Tools had an 80 percent chance of dying within 30 days.

We used each of these groupings as a factor in Cox's proportional hazards model for predicting overall survival [ 18].