Sentence examples for receptor test from inspiring English sources

In addition, older women are less likely to undergo a steroid receptor test within 4 months of diagnosis and less likely to have radiotherapy following breast-conserving surgery.

It should be mentioned that all the microbial test methods evaluated in this study were outcompeted by a commercial receptor test (Tetrasensor).

Patients aged ⩾80 years were found to have 3.0 (95% CI: 1.7 5.5) times the odds of not receiving a steroid receptor test within 4 months of diagnosis compared to 65 69 year olds, controlling for overall tumour stage.

As 75% of patients not receiving a steroid receptor test were still treated with tamoxifen they were prescribed a treatment without this evidence that it would work and for 32% of these patients it was the only therapy they received.

The lack of diagnostic and steroid receptor testing resulted in older cancer patients having no effective treatment with 41% not undergoing a steroid receptor test, 32% of whom received tamoxifen as their sole form of treatment.

The percentage not receiving a receptor test varied the least between age groups compared to the other indicators of standard management with 30% of the youngest women (65 69 years) compared to 41% of all age groups in this study not undergoing receptor testing.

M. Elizabeth H. Hammond Daniel F. Hayes Antonio C. Wolff Baltimore, April 21, 2010 The writers are co-chairmen of the joint American Society of Clinical Oncology and College of American Pathologists' HER2 and Hormone Receptor Testing Guideline Panels.

Overall sensitivity and specificity of estrogen and progesterone receptor testing were high among participating laboratories.

Overall sensitivity and specificity of progesterone receptor testing were 94.8 and 92.6 %, respectively.

The number of novel alternative splice variants is presented for each receptor tested.

In addition, unlike previous studies, patterns of steroid receptor testing by age group were investigated.