Listen to pronunciation. (prog-NOS-tik FAK-ter) A situation or condition, or a characteristic of a patient, that can be used to estimate the chance of recovery from a disease or the chance of the disease recurring (coming back).

What are prognostic factors example?

Prognostic or predictive factors may include patient characteristics such as age, ethnicity, sex, or smoking status, disease characteristics such as disease stage or nodal status, and molecular markers such as HER2 amplification and K ras mutation.

What are prognostic factors in research?

A prognostic factor is any variable that is associated with the risk of a subsequent health outcome among people with a particular health condition. Different values or categories of a prognostic factor are associated with a better or worse prognosis of future health outcomes.