METHOD FOR PREDICTING THE FLOW OF DISSEMINATED OVARIAN CANCER Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC G01N33/574 

FIELD: medicine, oncology.

SUBSTANCE: the present innovation deals with cytological study of ascitic fluid before therapy, smears should be stained according to Felgen's technique to determine tumor ploidy. The values of gynecological status of a patient (reproductive period - 1, postmenopausal - 2), the presence (1) or absence (0) of hydrothorax, the size of residual tumor up to 2 cm (1) or above 2 cm (2) and tumor ploidy (aneuploid - 1 or diploid -2) should be applied for calculating canonic linear discriminant function (CLDF) by the following formula: CLDF=-4.35465+status code*1.28017+hydrothorax code*0.64462+residual tumor code*1.55890-ploidy code*0.65926. In case, if rating value is below discriminant value (DV=-0.94584) one should predict favorable prognosis of the disease mentioned; if this value is above DV - unfavorable prognosis. The method is simple and enables to carry out prediction at high accuracy.

EFFECT: higher efficiency of prediction.

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