Sentence examples for an overall staging from inspiring English sources

For detection of deep myometrial invasion, the sensitivity and specificity are 83% and 42%, respectively [30], with an overall staging accuracy of between 58-76% [31].

For example, a recently published study of 1184 patients undergoing pretreatment staging by TRUS found that it had an overall staging accuracy of 69% due to its limited depth of acoustic penetration preventing accurate staging of locally advanced tumours (Garcia-Aguilar et al, 2002).

However, 9 GCR and 609 SEER cases were able to be assigned to an overall stage III and were included in the logistic regression models.

Information on the tumor (T) (i.e. how big it is and how far it has spread within the lung and to nearby organs), lymph node involvement (N), and the presence or absence of distant metastases (M) are collated, enabling an overall stage to be assigned (Mountain 1986).

FDG-PET has a positive impact on overall staging and patient management for a wide variety of malignancies.

Determining whether a lymph node is malignant, particularly those in the mediastinum, has a considerable influence on the overall staging and will play a major role in patient management.

FDG-PET has had a positive impact on overall staging and patient management in various malignancies.

In this paper, we have examined the impact of improving the stage distribution of all patients to match that of population subgroups with a better overall stage mix.

When applying our staging algorithm, we found that localized PC accounted for 52.6%, regional PC for 2.5%, and distant PC for 15.4% of the cases (Table 2), yielding an overall clinical staging completeness of 70.5%.

Overall staging accuracy improved from 78%to89%9% on a patient-by-patient analysis (Fig. 7) [ 10, 11].

A systematic review of 57 single institution studies also showed that MRI was more accurate than CT for overall staging of cervical cancer [71].