In the evaluation of the persistent/recurrent/metastatic prostate cancer, knowledge of cancer location (local v distant), size, and extent are essential in order to design a treatment, tailored to each patient's needs.
However, the global health emphasis on medical interventions has been to some extent distant from a rights-based approach that emphasizes action to the pre-conditions of health and the underlying social determinants of health.
He had a distant quality to some extent.
The extent of distant metastases was objectively measured by several methods to identify potential prognostic variables that may help guide patient selection in this population.
Patient-dependent factors (performance status, comorbid disease) and extent of distant metastases are among the considerations that impact on the decision to proceed with surgical management in asymptomatic stage IV CRC patients.
For example, in the eastern half of the island of Tasmania, English settlers tried, with varying success, to replicate the hedges and fields of their distant homeland, to the extent of importing hawthorn and elm trees as well as wheat and sheep.
After Boethius, as the classical Greco-Roman world grew ever more distant, philosophy and to some extent culture generally entered a period of relative stagnation, a period that lasted until after the year 1000.
Penetration of antibody into malignant acinar structures was poor and CEA-positive cells closer to the blood supply were targeted to a greater extent than distant cells.
If correlated activity spontaneously emerges through attractor dynamics in distant cortical regions, then extent of these functional correlations should be best predicted by local GABA concentrations.
Therefore, the early detection of locoregional disease, assessment of its extent and distant recurrence plays a key role in the prognosis of these patients.
