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.
Doctors estimate prognosis by using statistics that researchers have collected over many years about people with the same type of cancer. 1  Several types of statistics may be used to estimate prognosis. The most commonly used statistics include: 2  Cancer-specific survival. This is the percentage of patients with a specific type and stage of cancer who have not died from their cancer during a certain period of time after diagnosis. The period of time may be 1 year, 2 years, 5 years, etc., with 5 years being the time period most often used.