Knowledge regarding modalities that are associated with exposure to ionising radiation significantly improved on the second survey for all modalities (p < 0.05) apart from chest radiography, mammography (p = 0.551) and CT (p = 0.185).
Open image in new window Fig. 2 Student knowledge regarding modalities and imaging studies that involve exposure to ionising radiation (a) and the level of radiation used in these (b).
Bias therefore may have been introduced regarding modalities correlated with conventional treatments.
Additional studies regarding modalities, biomarkers, or clinicopathological characteristics that discriminated between lymph node enlargement and recurrence should be performed.
From interview, the contents referred by the patients regarding relationship modality with the team was the need for information related to the status of disease, to treatment modality and future perspectives and the communication centred on sincere and reassuring relations.
For example, the aware/mild group mostly commented on aesthetics and personal preferences regarding operation modality.
The selection was not restricted regarding treatment modality, study design, publication language, or year of publication.
Regarding the modality by which shipped cargo enters the target cell, two different scenarios are conceivable.
