Sentence examples for basis of staging from inspiring English sources

This information could be particularly important in patients in whom adjuvant therapies might not be recommended on the basis of staging information alone, such as those with small, node negative tumours.

The type and extent of surgical resection of the tumour and the type of the neck dissection was determined by our head-and-neck surgical team on the basis of staging results and estimated risk of occult metastases [ 21].

Henry Ball's history of the AWC, Of Responsible Command (1983), identified a number of distinct incarnations of the institution on the basis of stages in its evolution.

Habitat wise floras were generated using the stratified quadrant sampling approach that were further segregated into native and alien elements followed by growth form characterisation. Alien species were further categorised on the basis of stages of invasion.

McArdle et al [ 18] also used hierarchical clustering and found 31 genes that could distinguish tumours on the basis of stage and differentiation.

These tumors were selected on the basis of stage 2 or 3 at presentation and/or age < 50 and a balance between the 3 clinical subtypes.

This last suggestion is consistent with our data, showing more active staff-rated involvement from more recovered service users, which has clinical implications for tailoring the balance of power in decision-making on the basis of stage of recovery.

Attempts to explain socioeconomic differences in survival on the basis of stage and treatment have also produced conflicting results, which may reflect differing health service provisions and socioeconomic structures in the relevant countries (Thomson et al, 2001).

Genotypic values in Stage 2 were scored as follows: AA = 0, AB = 1, BB = 2. QTL p (column 13) is the P value of the QTL r for the unselected sample of individuals; p is one-tailed because only the direction of association expected on the basis of Stage 1 results was accepted as significant.

This method balanced the treatment groups on the basis of stage of disease (stage I/II, III or IV), KPS (60 70% vs 80 100%), gender, disease status (newly diagnosed vs recurrent vs recurrent + other treatment), measurable disease (measurable vs non-measurable) and study centre.

These scenarios looked similar to those used in the PTO with choice made on the basis of stage of life and severity, except that (a) the size of the health gain was also allowed to vary across the scenarios in any one choice set and (b) the respondent merely chose one scenario in preference to the other, and did not use numbers of people to weight the scenarios.