Sentence examples similar to assisted staging from inspiring English sources

In NSCLC, samples are taken of nearby lymph nodes during surgery to assist staging.

If mediastinal lymph node involvement is suspected, mediastinoscopy may be used to sample the nodes and assist staging.

Repeat aspirates may be performed to assess progress following treatment, or multiple suspected tumour sites may be aspirated to assist staging.

They also suggested basing selection on the histology of the resected tumour with poor prognosis patients having a PET scan early after nephrectomy to assist staging and therefore management.

They assist stage managers, join technical crews and even play small roles.

This information has been used to assist in staging and surveillance of disease.

SAA may represent a novel biomarker for USPC to assist in staging patients preoperatively, and to monitor early-disease recurrence and response to therapy.

Study design: Data were obtained from a prospectively collected database of 108 patients two oncolaparoscopic centers in Czech Republic who underwent laparoscopically assisted surgical staging (LASS) from April 1996 to March 2001.

The COMICE trial considered whether adding a MRI scan to conventional triple assessment (mammogram, ultrasound and biopsy) assisted locoregional staging, and thereby reduced reoperation rates, for patients with primary breast cancer scheduled for wide local excision.

Characterization of lesions - in terms of volumes and molecular cellular characteristics - potentially assists staging, which predicts how aggressive the lesion will be in causing future disease in the patient.

In April 1992 the military assisted Fujimori in staging an autogolpe ("self-administered coup"), in which Congress was dissolved.