Word forms: 3rd person singular present tense investigates, present participle investigating, past tense, past participle investigated verb If someone, especially an official, investigates an event, situation, or claim, they try to find out what happened or what is the truth.
7. Prognosis is the likely outlook of a disease: whether it is likely to be cured and the personâs life expectancy. After a diagnosis of breast cancer, people often start to wonder about their prognosis. But they vary in how much information they want.rognosis can be put into words (such as excellent, good, poor) or numbers. Itâs often expressed as five-or ten-year survival, which is a snapshot of how many people are likely to be alive five and ten years after diagnosis.
Patients diagnosed with cancer generally expect their physicians to provide them with a prognosis, an educated guess about what will happen to them. In the case of liver cancer, which has generally been associated with a poor outcome, the patients may want to know how long they have to live.