Overview
Prognosis is the medical assessment of the likely course and outcome of a disease, including the probability of recovery, recurrence, progression, or survival. It is derived by integrating the nature and stage of the condition with patient characteristics, laboratory and imaging findings, histopathological and molecular features, and increasingly with biomarkers and prognostic scoring systems. Prognostication informs clinical decision-making, the selection and intensity of treatment, surveillance strategies, and communication with patients, and in oncology it is closely tied to staging, grading, and markers of tumour biology. Robust prognostic evidence depends on well-designed observational and analytical studies and on validated indicators that predict outcome. Peer-reviewed work relevant to this topic examines prognostic blood-count parameters in sudden sensorineural hearing loss, microRNAs as prognostic and therapeutic tools in hypertension, clinical prognostic variables in triple-negative breast cancer, lactate dehydrogenase and miR-21 expression as markers of disease behaviour, molecular diagnosis in the management of thyroid cancer, and outcomes in lymphoma in resource-limited settings. These contributions span oncology, haematology, and laboratory medicine, addressing the identification and validation of factors that predict disease outcome and guide management, an area in which the journal publishes peer-reviewed research relevant to malignant and haematological disease.
Research published in this journal
12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.
How this research is being cited
The 12 articles above have been cited 17 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.
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João Alves Ambrósio et al. · 2025 · Cureus
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2025 · Cureus
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2024 · Journal of the American Heart Association
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2024 · Journal of the American Heart Association
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2023 · Tạp chí Y Dược học Cần Thơ
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2023 · Springer eBooks
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2022 · The European Research Journal
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2022 · The European Research Journal
A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Prognosis, linking to each citing work.