Hodgkin disease has gone from a 50 percentsurvival rate to 90 percent. The survival rate for atype of brain cancer called medulloblastoma hasimproved from 10 percent to 85 percent.st. Jude strives to help children and their familiesbetter understand and cope with their disease, treat-ment and its side effects.
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  differential diagnosis(Noun) The process of determining which disease, from a set of possible candidates, is causing a patient's symptoms. 2  differential diagnosis(Noun) A list of the common causes of a primary symptom.
A provisional diagnosis is one that is initially determined to be the diagnosis, except for the fact that all test results have not been received and/or analyzed. When the full medical work-up has been completed, the provisional diagnosis is usually changed to a (definite) diagnosis. A provisional diagnosis is one that is initially determined to be the diagnosis, except for the fact that all test results have not been received and/or analyzed.