Clinical application of FDG PET/CT in lung cancer radiotherapy planning has been deterred by uncertainties in detection and quantification, which have led to difficulties in staging mediastinal involvement, regional lymph nodes, and distant metastases in certain cases[23].
When I asked if there were any difficulties in staging these site-specific works, I was expecting the organization's co-director to vent about, for example, the challenges of Pancin's work.
To emphasise the pitfalls and difficulties in staging adenocarcinomas and suggested improvements in MRI techniques.
But the delay also reflects the logistical difficulties Abbas would face in staging a referendum that Hamas, now running the Palestinian Authority's day-to-day operations, opposes in principle.
In this regard, the major limitation of MR imaging in the evaluation of rectal carcinoma is the difficulty in differentiating stage T2 and stage T3 tumours.
Cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) has for a long time been a challenge for diabetologists because of the lack of easily available diagnostic methods and, thus, the difficulty in starting interventions at a stage when the disorder is still reversible.
Historical trials using adjuvant hormonal therapy have been limited due to difficulties in clinical staging, as well as toxicities attributed to the formulations used.
A substantial overlap in the clinical and laboratory characteristics of malaria and HIV-related syndromes generates potential difficulties in AIDS staging and in the diagnosis and management of patients at risk of co-infection [ 33].
3 Due to the rarity and heterogeneity of the disease, difficulty in diagnosis and staging, and a variety of treatment options – including investigational therapies – patients should be referred to an academic or lymphoma specialty centre at the time of suspected CTCL.
The British Pregnancy Advisory Service said this highlighted the difficulty in obtaining late-stage terminations for women north of the border.
