title: Stage classification and prognosis: an intersection of medicine, quantum physics and religion?
abstract: Estimating prognosis is an important part of caring for patients with cancer. However, predicting prognosis is complicated and depends on many factors. Simply amassing more data alone is not the answer; we have to learn to intellectually manage the inherent complexity and uncertainty if we are to make progress.
authors.affiliation: Yale University School of Medicine, 330 Cedar St, Thoracic Surgery, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 06520-8062, USA. frank.detterbeck@yale.edu
authors.forename: Frank C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Detterbeck
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011379:Prognosis; D011789:Quantum Theory; D016896:Treatment Outcome