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When we applied a stage algorithm allowing some missing TNM components in the various categories, the proportion of cases with definite staging increased.
The authors also suggested that unknown stage may have resulted if patients were only treated with endoscopic therapy and local excision, or cared for in areas where definite staging was not available.
While a standardized staging system has been introduced with the 7th edition of the AJCC staging manual [ 6, 7], the definite staging algorithm for MCC remains to be established.
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"Too many people think of emerging markets in a general basket," but they have very definite stages of development, said Norman Villamin, head of research and strategy group investments for Citi Global Wealth Management, Asia Pacific.
Preplanting treatments are applied before the crop is planted; preemergence treatments are applied after the crop is planted but before its seedlings emerge from the soil; and postemergence treatments are applied to the growing crop at a definite stage of growth.
This process required several treatments and withdrawal of treatments for achieving the synchronized at a definite stage (Fig. 12).
Optimal temperature of the sensor sintering which should satisfy the conditions listed above can be achieved by required temperature values and time duration of definite stages of the high-temperature sintering of the sensors.
Connecting with these people took place in definite stages, or as I like to call it...The Ten Stages of Gay Facebook Friending.
Other methods that attempt to avoid the serum response involve use of drugs to arrest cells at a definite stage of the cell cycle.
We discriminated five intermediate stages and five definite stages.
Image quality characteristics and disease stage (from definite stage T2 to T3 disease) were determined on a five-point scale.
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