Sentence examples for lymph node stages from inspiring English sources

Hazard rates for overall mortality were lower for all tumour stages and lymph node stages in 2006-12 compared with 1999-2005.

Lymph node staging of bladder or prostate cancer using conventional imaging is limited.

However, it has significant limitations, particularly with respect to clinical staging and to the categories for lymph node staging.

The standard imaging modalities for staging (computed tomography [CT] or magnetic resonance imaging [MRI]) have an accuracy range of 70 90% for lymph node staging.

Therefore, preoperative assessment of lymph node stage using imaging may have great clinical importance.

Mediastinal lymph node staging for lung cancer remains one of the most important factors to determine patient outcome.

Gadolinium has also been used for lymph node staging, although the accuracy rates have similarly been around 70%[52]].

The MR techniques are continuously improving, and as there are several limitations in rectal cancer staging, especially for lymph node staging, we can foresee improvements.

For axillary lymph node staging using FDG-PET/CT, a systematic review based on seven studies found an average sensitivity of 56% with 93% specificity [7].

The sensitivity and specificity for PET-CT in the evaluation of persistent mediastinal disease are less than in the initial mediastinal lymph node staging [39, 40, 41].

These new insights have created a window of opportunity for many other non-invasive (imaging) modalities to be used in axillary lymph node staging.