In particular, none of the guidelines on stage III IVa cervical cancer or endometrial cancer touched on issues of costs related to chemotherapy, whereas less than 40% addressed issues regarding toxicity (Table 4).
The design carefully followed the Guidelines for the treatment of animals in behavioural research and teaching, ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 2001, 61, 271 275, with special emphasis on the guidelines for staged encounters as outlined by [ 81].
This article emphasizes the guidelines on the MR staging criteria, dependence of newer treatments on imaging staging and lymph node involvement, and MR imaging in post-treatment surveillance of cervical cancer.
The attendee will take home clear guidelines on the MR staging criteria and will understand the relative accuracy of MR and computed tomography (CT) for the various stages.
The RCR guidelines on reporting of staging scans make a number of recommendations including description of the primary along with dimensions and image numbers, which nodal chains are enlarged and the dimensions, and a statement about non-malignant changes that may be pertinent.
Owing to the fact that the OncoLR guidelines are based on stage grouping according to the Mountain's system rather than the detailed TNM, we considered Montain's stage grouping as the staging variable in the Cox model.
They only provide guidelines on categorizing different possible stages and processes plus naming some of the possible techniques available to handle uncertainties.
These criteria are in accordance with guidelines from Danish Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology [ 34], supplemented with a criterion for the descending phase of labour's second stage from the guidelines on dystocia from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology [ 1].
COPD severity was classified based on the percentage predicted FEV1 in accordance to GOLD guidelines: stage 1 > = 80%; stage 2: 50–80%; stage 3: 30–49%; and stage 4 < 30%.
For pathological staging and grading, EAU Guidelines on Non-muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer [ 30] were used.
For iPTH, the range suggested in the KDIGO guidelines for CKD Stage 5 patients on dialysis corresponds to approximately 130 600 pg/mL, taking into account the different iPTH assays in use commercially [ 26], and therefore our findings of increased costs in patients with iPTH > 600 pg/mL would be expected to apply in relation to the KDIGO target range.
