Sentence examples for insufficient staging from inspiring English sources

Recently, E. Moawad has attributed such random variations to the wide and insufficient staging by the TNM system that leads to dose assessment using standard models and consequently to a wide range of doses, responsible for tumor regrowth and second cancer risks (Moawad 2010, 2011).

Insufficient staging and outdated histological classifications are a major problem of the older reports.

In the present study, there was insufficient staging information available on all cancer groups, apart from colorectal, to demonstrate that the mGPS is universally prognostic independent of stage.

One explanation for this is that the adjustment for stage is insufficient because stage is not a sensitive enough measure to capture the variation in disease.

The LNY of less than 10 by ALND after NC might not be indicative for an insufficient axillary staging.

Consequently, the lymph node count of less than 10 by ALND after NC is not indicative for an insufficient axillary staging.

We previously reported that medical chart data were insufficient for staging among the majority (57 %) of patients whose serology suggests active infection [ 19].

However, survival analyses did not clearly differ between the two histologic tumor types and the single study consisting of patients with adenocarcinoma only [ 27], has largely been criticized for insufficient preoperative staging procedures and a very poor outcome of the surgery group with a 3-year-survival rate of 6%.

A feasibility and efficacy stopping rule have been specified (as detailed below) to ensure the trial is stopped as early as possible in the case of insufficient recruitment (Stage A) or insufficient efficacy (Stage B) in the DFIS arm.

Adjuvant treatment is recommended for patients with stage III and high-risk stage II disease (e.g. T4, tumour perforation, insufficient lymph node staging).

According to ASCO guidelines, adjuvant treatment should be considered for patients with stage II disease presenting with one or more risk factors (including large tumour, tumour perforation, vascular or neural invasion and insufficient lymph node staging) [ 2][ 3].