MGMT and neoplasm: To explain explicitly the clinical impact of MGMT promoter status, the definition of the terms “prognostic” and “predictive” was used as follows: 1) a prognostic factor is a clinical or biologic characteristic that provides information on the likely outcome of the cancer disease independent of treatment; and 2) a predictive factor is a clinical or biologic characteristic that provides information on the likely benefit from one specific treatment rather than another (either in terms of tumor shrinkage or survival).[36]