Sentence examples for integrated staging from inspiring English sources

Although a new staging system was proposed by Tournoux-Facon et al specifically for patients with HCC in palliative setting (Tournoux-Facon et al, 2011), this new system has not been thoroughly compared with staging systems commonly used in East Asia, such as Chinese University Prognostic Index (CUPI), Japan Integrated Staging (JIS) scores, and China integrated score (CIS).

The new Japanese staging system for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the Japan integrated staging (JIS) score, accounts for both Child Pugh classification and Japan tumour node metastasis (TNM) staging.

Because overall HCC survival is definitely defined by not only anatomical tumor extent but also the functional liver reserve as an integrated staging system can stratify overall survival quite well [ 2, 3], an anticancer treatment should be less toxic to the hepatocytes especially in cases with deteriorated functional hepatic reserve.

Whichever staging system is used (Okuda, TNM, Japan Integrated Staging (JIS), Cancer of the Liver Italian Program (CLIP), Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC), the input required from imaging is to demonstrate the number and size of HCCs, to look for vascular invasion, and to find extrahepatic spread.

Those widely used staging systems with external validations include the American Joint Committee on Cancer AJCCC) TNM staging system [ 5], the BCLC system, the Cancer of the Liver Italian Program (CLIP) score [ 6], the Chinese University Prognostic Index (CUPI) [ 7], and the Japan Integrated Staging (JIS) [ 8].

Skeleton structure is the integrated stage of an average point clouds data obtained from the existing point cloud.

Situation assessment is a combination of information acquisition and interpretation, which consists of four distinct but integrated stages: 1. Perception: acquiring the available facts.   2.

The nightclub will feature three bars, an integrated stage and seating for 450 guests.

Tumor cells move through successive series of coordinated and integrated stages, with formation of protrusive membranous structures including filopodia, invadopodia and lamellipodia required for initiation and maintenance of invasion and migration [2], [3], [4], [5].

Nevertheless, similar cases of fossilization of viruses which normally have no integrated stages were discovered in other animals [ 44– 44].

Understanding aberrant methylation caused by smoking in a network setting provides an integrated stage for understanding complex diseases like cancer while designing potential therapies.