The resection was judged as curative when all the following criteria were met: en bloc removal, tumor size ≤ 2 cm, differentiated type, pT1a, negative horizontal margin (HM0), negative vertical margin (VM0), and no lymphovascular infiltration [ly, v ].
For most invasive cancers, effective curative treatment makes all the difference between life and death.
Because the data set focused on curative resections, all patients with M1 disease were excluded; all would have been staged as having stage IV disease in the 6th and 7th edition staging systems.
Surgical excision was curative in all cases.
She came to think that what people needed to heal themselves was a psychological "prime" — something that triggered the body to take curative measures all by itself.
Curative resection (all gross tumor removed) was achieved in 36 of 37 surgical explorations, with 10 tumors demonstrating complete pathologic response and 23 showing partial pathologic response.
After curative resection, all patients will be regularly evaluated for disease recurrence postoperatively every 3 or 6 months over a 3-year period.
Oesophageal resection was defined as potentially curative when all visible tumour had been removed and both proximal and distal resection margins were free from tumour on histological examination.
If treatment is curative, then all future recurrences are prevented, so the hazard ratio will remain below unity even after treatment has stopped.
Despite an explicit statement that current chemotherapy options for metastatic disease were not offered with curative intent, all patients reported that metastatic NSCLC was curable after reviewing the DA.
