Sentence examples for pet stage from inspiring English sources

The PET stage was determined by incorporating the PET or PET-CT findings with all other staging information available at the time of clinical reporting.

RESULTS: When PET stage was compared with histopathologic stage, the disease in 72 (86%) patients was accurately staged with PET, understaged in two (2%), and overstaged in 10 (12%).

In these patients, PET stage changes would potentially have altered management intent or treatment fields, but were ignored.

Also, in line with superior diagnostic staging accuracy, our data have demonstrated that FDG PET stage treatment status better stratifies for survival than does conventional stage in a number of different cancers [ 32– 32].

An interesting additional result of subgroup analysis was a highly significant difference between the patients who underwent resection after PET staging versus patients who underwent resection without PET staging (Fig.  4, p=0.002).

PET staging, overall survival (OS), and lung cancer-specific survival (LCSS) were assessed over time.

The impact of PET staging on OS and LCSS was assessed for limited-stage (LS) and extensive-stage (ES) SCLC.

RESULTS: PET staging was accurate in 83 (83%) patients; conventional imaging staging was accurate in 65 (65%) patients (P <.005).

Conclusions: From 2001 to 2010, PET staging increased in this large cohort, with a corresponding relative increase in ES-SCLC.

The objective of this study was to evaluate temporal trends in PET staging and survival in the Veterans Affairs Central Cancer Registry and the impact of PET on outcomes.

In the first part of the study, PET staging was prescribed in addition to conventional workup with the aim of evaluating the accuracy of PET staging.