She said the findings were not just important for drug development, but also for developing a test which can predict the likelihood of cancer spreading and as a result, patient outcomes.

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Is it not unreasonable, in an age of trillion dollar budget deficits, to deny funds to students whose high school records, previous college performance, or test scores suggest have little likelihood of success?

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Chainrai and any directors he wants to appoint must now pass the Premier League's fit and proper persons test, but there is every likelihood his tenure will be brief.

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We were far along in our quest to develop a diagnostic test that can help gynecologists and other physicians determine the likelihood that a woman's ovarian mass is benign or malignant.

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With this simple test, available in their own community, there is much greater likelihood of spotting and subsequently treating anaemia, he suggested.

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In order to be useful, Tautigian says, a prostate cancer test would not only have to test for at least two genes, but both genes would have to predict the likelihood that a patient will develop cancer with similar certainty.

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Then there's the Defamation Bill - where the Lords got their way on the "serious harm test" requiring that companies would have to prove substantial financial loss, or at least the likelihood of it, before they could sue for libel.

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