Sentence examples for cancer equivalent from inspiring English sources

Regarding ovarian cancer, doctors have long been searching for the ovarian cancer equivalent of mammography -- a way to catch tumors early enough that they are treatable.

We have shown in aged animals that angiogenesis and tumour growth are inhibited in some solid tumours, such as melanomas, but in prostate cancer equivalent angiogenesis and tumour growth occurred in both young and old animals.

All women aged 60 years or more were eligible and women less than 60 had to have a 5-year risk of breast cancer equivalent to that in a woman of 60 years.

The chemosensitivity in differentiated cancer was equivalent to that in non-differentiated cancer.

59 Stage per stage female and male breast cancer is equivalent in prognosis.

In the STAR trial, the effect of raloxifene on invasive breast cancer was equivalent to that of tamoxifen with more favorable effects on uterine malignancy and clotting events.

Differential DNA methylation between cancer and equivalent disease-free tissue can be identified and correlated with existing and published genomic studies.

Overestimating cancer survival (equivalent to underestimating its seriousness) may be associated with poor health behaviours such as smoking (Donovan et al, 2006).

Beaver et al. reported that most women with breast cancer had equivalent satisfaction with elements of cancer follow-up received via technological means compared to usual care [ 11, 25].

Many prospective randomized trials have demonstrated that overall and disease-free survival rates for early-stage breast cancer are equivalent after mastectomy or BCS with postoperative radiotherapy [ 2- 4], [ 8, 9].

In fact, the combination of BCS and RT has been shown to provide cancer control equivalent to mastectomy [ 15] and has therefore become the standard method of treatment as it avoids the physiological and psychological impact associated with mastectomy.