Sentence examples for rendered operable from inspiring English sources

Secondary endpoints included: the proportion of patients with inoperable loco-regional disease rendered operable by TPF chemotherapy; toxicity; progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS).

All three were rendered operable by chemotherapy and are still alive at 47, 44 and 30 months from the commencement of chemotherapy.

The relative contribution of surgery and neoadjuvant chemotherapy to outcome in the four inoperable patients who were rendered operable by TPF and underwent surgery is difficult to ascertain, the numbers here being undeniably small.

The first report of a platinum-taxane combination in penis cancer describes a single patient with locally advanced disease who received carboplatin and paclitaxel (Joerger et al, 2004) and was rendered operable.

The results of this study suggest that even the most locally advanced rectal cancer can be downstaged and rendered operable, or even cured, by use of an appropriate CRT regimen.

High response rates have been reported in the treatment of advanced gastric cancer with epirubicin, cisplatin and continuous infusion 5-fluorouracil (ECF), including instances of unresectable disease being rendered operable by chemotherapy.

Previous systems had chain-like structures that were rendered in operable by the destruction of a single link.

Miller and Rose (2008, p. 63) describe governmentality as 'a domain of strategies, techniques and procedures through which different forces seek to render programmes operable, and by means of which a multitude of connections are established between the aspirations of authorities and the activities of individuals and groups'.

"The missile is likely real, but inoperable, as ISIS (IS) tries to maintain credibility in its propaganda--but the cost-benefit ratio of rendering the missile operable will probably keep it on indefinite parade duty," said Rick Berger, an independent Iraq researcher who tracks IS military capabilities.

Its primary purpose is to reduce tumor size or extent in order to provide improved local conditions for surgery, often enabling conservative rather than radical procedures and, sometimes, even rendering inoperable tumors operable [ 10].

13 Patient variables: age; sex; economic immigration condition (to render this variable operable, the country of origin was taken into account; if this was without the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the patient was considered an economic immigrant).