Group of patients | Definition |
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True favourable | Patient that is classified as favourable at monitoring (criteria [7]), continues receiving NACT 1, and after 5Â years of follow up is classified as favourable due to absence of relapse event |
False favourable | Patient that is classified as favourable at monitoring (criteria [7]), continues receiving NACT 1, and after 5Â years of follow up is classified as unfavourable due to presence of relapse event |
True unfavourable | Patient that is unfavourable at monitoring (criteria [7]), switches to NACT 2, and after 5Â years of follow up is classified as favourable due to absence of relapse event (the underlying assumption is that the patient was not responding to NACT1 but did to NACT 2, thereby demonstrating that monitoring classified the patient properly) |
False unfavourable | Patient that is unfavourable at monitoring (criteria [7]), switches to NACT 2, and after 5Â years of follow up is classified as unfavourable due to presence of relapse event (the underlying assumption is that the patient was responding to NACT1 and did not to NACT 2, thereby demonstrating that monitoring classified the patient wrongly) a |