poor prognosis

Zoo spokesperson said in a Wednesday statement that the decision to euthanize the elephants “was based on poor prognosis and acute decline in health stemming from age-related medical conditions.”

"The lymphoma cases where the KLHL6 protein was absent were associated with a poor prognosis. The identification of pathogenic mechanisms relevant to these patients is particularly important for improving their prognoses through drug development," Leppä says.

Posterior and panuveitis in particular are associated with a poor prognosis and a protracted course of the disease.

AML with a FLT3-ITD mutation occurs in nearly 30% of all patients and is a highly aggressive disease with a poor prognosis.

Blood cancer patients in whom this gene is mutated, however, face an extremely poor prognosis, as their genes are resistant to conventional chemotherapeutic agents.