Sentence examples for operable size from inspiring English sources

Ford's surgery comes after several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation that he said had shrunk his tumour to an operable size.

Eligible patients (a) had histologically proven breast cancer or strong suspicion through diagnostic procedures, (b) had an operable finding (tumour sizes T1, T2, or T3 as measured by ultrasound), (c) were between ages 18 and 75 years, (d) had no major psychiatric disease, dementia or mental retardation, (e) had good knowledge of the German language and (f) provided informed consent to the study.

In the 691 operable invasive cases the size, histological type, grade, node status and node number group individually showed highly significant (P< 0.001) association with survival.

In addition, only patients who have operable cancers of sufficient size are consented, and only tumour samples excess to diagnosis can be banked, thus possibly selecting for larger tumours.

Only two ongoing trials, NSABP 32 and ALMANAC, included patients with operable tumours of any size, with 20 25% of subjects having a tumour larger than 2 cm (Mansel et al, 2006; Krag et al, 2010).

The primary treatment for breast cancer has been to treat both operable and non-operable large size tumours, as well as to provide the patients with a conservative treatment option.

In a randomised phase II trial in 270 postmenopausal women with ER-positive primary operable breast cancer (>2 cm in size), the combination of letrozole 2.5 mg/day and oral everolimus 10 mg/day for 4 months presurgery resulted in a significantly greater tumour shrinkage as judged by ultrasound (58% vs. 47%, P = 0.03), as well as by clinical and mammographic assessment [ 14].

In order to test whether patients' health and role in the surgical treatment decision predicts surgery among women aged ⩾70 with operable breast cancer, the recommended sample size is determined by the number of explanatory variables included in the logistic regression model predicting surgery in order to avoid over-specification.

Policymakers would prefer models scalable to any population size that can be downloadable and operable in personal computers.

All patients were females ⩾70 years of age, who had either ductal carcinoma in situ or invasive early operable primary breast cancer ⩽5 cm of clinical size without evidence of distant metastases at the time of diagnosis.

For operable breast cancer the gains are in smaller sizes, better histological features, and higher proportion node negative.