Removing the bulk of a tumor improves prognosis in part, Dr. Collins said, because it tends to let the patient better tolerate chemotherapy and radiation.
They allowed me the illusion that I would always be approaching this prognosis as part of a dynamic duo, a twosome that could feint and jab together at this overwhelming new opponent, cancer.
Pancreatic cancer generally has a poor prognosis, in part because symptoms often do not appear until the cancer is too advanced for surgical treatment.
Advanced hepatobiliary cancers have a poor prognosis, in part complicated by underlying liver dysfunction.
Thus, patients harboring this subtype of breast cancer have a poorer prognosis, in part due to the lack of targeted therapies.
It may be possible that, as reported in EBV-positive nasopharyngeal carcinoma, EBVaGC has a better prognosis in part because of better response to therapy [ 59, 60].
The dismal prognosis, in part, relates to the gallbladder lacking a serosal layer adjacent to the liver, enabling hepatic invasion and metastatic progression.
These highly abnormal Doppler flow patterns are associated with a poor perinatal prognosis, in part because they identify a subset of pregnancies with chronic fetal hypoxia, metabolic acidosis, and reduced circulating glucose and amino acid levels.
The prognosis depends in part on the thickness of a melanoma, and Mr. McCain did not disclose findings of such pathology tests on the one from his temple.
Treatment and prognosis depend, in part, on the histology and molecular genetics of the RMS tumor.
