Sentence examples for based on tumour size from inspiring English sources
Cohorts of animals were selected based on tumour size matching instead of development time because size is one of three standard measurements that determines breast cancer prognosis [ 23].
The Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) (Todd et al, 1987), a prognostic tool based on tumour size, grade and lymph node status, allocates individual patients to one out of five prognostic groups with quite different survival predictions.
Management decisions are based on tumour size, necrosis, depth of invasion, mitosis and angiolymphatic invasion.
The T-staging is based on tumour size, and involvement of adjacent structures (Table 1).
The histological diagnosis fallopian tube carcinoma was based on tumour size, histological markers and histological subtype.
The latter is a validated prognostic tool based on tumour size, grade and lymph node status (Todd et al, 1987).
Three orders of quantitative features can be extracted: first-order features are based on tumour shape, size, intensity and volume; second-order features are generally described as "texture features" and are related to voxel similarity (or dissimilarity) in terms of contrast values; third-order features describe the presence of repetitive or non-repetitive patterns of voxels [53].
Early quantitative biomarkers in CT were based primarily on tumour size.
We assessed 50 specimens for adequacy based on tumour cell content, size of the specimen and tissue consistency, and rejected 41 specimens based on these criteria, mostly due to low or no tumour cell content.
Staging of carcinoma patients in clinical practice is based on tumour characteristics such as tumour size, tumour grade, lymphovascular involvement, the presence of metastases in regional lymph nodes at the time of primary surgery, steroid receptor status and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 amplification (Singletary et al, 2002).
Corroborating evidence demonstrating that 309G/G was associated with these poorer prognostic markers was the association of 309G/G with an increased Nottingham Prognostic Index (NPI) (OR = 1.30, 95%CI = 1.02 1.65, p = 0.031), consistent with NPI values being a combinatorial score based on tumour grade, nodal status and tumour size.
