Sentence examples for of staging information from inspiring English sources

One of the limitations of this study was the lack of staging information for all cases.

Improving the completeness of staging information as well as ethnicity information received by cancer registries will enhance future analyses.

Notably, disease stage could not be confirmed due to the absence of staging information in the database.

Overall, the recording of staging information improved from 1996, with the proportion of unknown stage decreasing from 36% in 1997 to 22% in 1999 then 15% in 2008.

This information could be particularly important in patients in whom adjuvant therapies might not be recommended on the basis of staging information alone, such as those with small, node negative tumours.

Recent reports have highlighted the completeness of staging information at NCRS(E) (Department of Health, Delivering the Cancer Reform Strategy. Report by the Controller and Auditor General, http://www.nao.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/1011568.pdf).

However, lack of stage information poses certain interpretation challenges in relation to the observed socioeconomic differences in use.

A recent National Audit Office report indicated that the completeness of stage information across English cancer registries is <40% (NAO National Audit Officee), 2010).

As recording of stage information becomes increasingly complete and consistent across England, future work should aim to encompass more recent cohorts of patients using nationwide data.

However, the unavailability of stage information for many of the PDAC cases prevented a comparison of early versus late stage SYCN levels in the present study and therefore, firm conclusions cannot be made regarding this at the present time.

The completeness of stage information varied substantially between patients with different socio-demographic characteristics and tumour types – missing stage was more frequent in older patients in particular (P<0.001 for both cancers, Appendix Table A2).