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.
(Redirected from Diagnostic) Diagnosis is the identification of the nature and cause of a certain phenomenon. Diagnosis is used in many different disciplines with variations in the use of logic, analytics, and experience to determine cause and effect. In systems engineering and computer science, it is typically used to determine the causes of symptoms, mitigations, and solutions.