Question 1

what is the general prognosis for a grade 3 oligoastrocytoma and rate of recurrence with modern day diagnosis?.

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Need more info: Grade 3 may be curable, but size,location, and overall health are important in giving accurate prognoses

Question 2

what is the general prognosis for a grade 3 astrocytoma and rate of recurrence with modern day diagnosis?

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Less than 27%: Astrocytoma, a form of glioma is found predominantly in children and young adult, but can occur at any age.  Grade III astrocytoma is predominantly anaplastic type with 5 year survival of less than 27%.

Question 3

is being diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer and being a diagnosed with stage 2 but having a recurrence later the same in terms if prognosis ?

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Prognosis is stage: It is stage-dependent. Once the Cancer has relapsed the prognosis is bad as the disease is typically fatal. As long as it remains stage-2, there is hope for a better prognosis as long as the disease is not visibly present. In one individual the prognosis and outcome is ultimately same although numerically speaking survival is longer as long as the Cancer has not shown up in the tests.

Question 4

what is turners syndrome prognosis?

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Turner's Syndrome: The prognosis for turner's syndrome diagnosed at birth is usually good. They will be short. They have streaked gonads. They can have a webbed neck. There can be lymphedema. There can be associated perceptual problems. They are not necessarily mentally retarded. There can be coarctation of the aorta.

Question 5

what is prognosis for this disease?

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What disease?: Sorry but the doctors here are not psychics and thus none of us know what disease you are talking about.
Please ask again with more detail. Knowing your age, symptoms, other health issues and how long you (or a loved one) has had it would help as well.
Most diseases have a variable prognosis based on multiple factors.

Question 6

how should i interpret "prognosis information"?

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Source is important: Information from search engines is "unfiltered" and can be devastating if misinterpreted. Only people quite familiar with all aspects of your disease can accurately give you initial prognostic information. However, once you know the details (exact disease type, stage, special studies like markers or chromosome analysis) you can use this to help evaluate information on the web from reliable sites.

Question 7

i suffer from polymoysitis what is my prognosis?

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Polymyositis: Well, there should be more explanation to it. There is dermatomyositis, which frequently is associated with malignancy and this needs to be ruled out. There is polymyalgia rheumatica, which is an inflammatory condition that is treated with steroids. Polymyositis is more of a general term but there should be a cause involved and found and prognosis will be based on it.

Question 8

waht is the prognosis of progeria?

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Progeria: A genetic disease which leads to premature cell death, progeria has no known cure. The average life expectancy is around the early teens though a few patients have survived into their twenties.

Question 9

what is the prognosis of porphyria?

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Very challenging: Porphyrias are life-long diseases with symptoms that come and go. Some forms of the disease cause more symptoms than others. Proper treatment and avoidance of triggers can help prolong the time between attacks. But attacks are quite painful and can be fatal. Life is a real struggle for someone with porphyria but it is possible to even do great things - some historical figures have suffered it.

Question 10

what is prognosis for myelofibrosis?

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Depends: They are several phases of the disease and it depends on how much fibrosis is present in the marrow.  Since this is included in the group of disorders known as myeloproliferative neoplasms, it can develop into a leukemia.  Hope this was helpful.

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