In view of the wide variation in survival outcomes seen among patients presenting with stage IV colorectal cancer, modification of the AJCC staging system (Greene et al, 2002) to allow the sub-categorization of stage IV patients has been proposed (Nagashima et al, 2006; Poston et al, 2006, 2008; Nordlinger et al, 2007).
In conclusion, based on this retrospective study of 195 evaluable patients treated for perihilar cholangiocarcinoma at a single institution, the categorization of tumor stages by the seventh edition of the TNM classification improves on that by the sixth edition.
The categorization of various stages of renal impairment was trial defined; however, the Kidney Disease Outcomes Quality Initiative clinical practice guidelines for chronic kidney disease define mild, moderate, and severe renal impairment as glomerular filtration rate of 60 89, 30 59, and 15 29 ml/min, respectively.
Since 1987, the American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) and the International Union Against Cancer UICCC) have proposed a worldwide categorization of cancer staging based on localized tumor invasion depth, nodal involvement, and the status of metastasis (TNM). 1 However, a recent analysis has suggested that CRC is heterogeneous in survival patterns even within staging categories.
While the specificities associated with these algorithms were high, there may still be some erroneous categorization of ethnicity.
Students' performance on decontextualized bar tasks involving continuous quantities was found to be consistent with students' level of unit coordination based on written work providing evidence for the validity of stage categorizations.
Collectively, biomass and lipid productivity confirmed a clear categorization of three different growth stages and our results present first report on identifying the three growth stages in C. Cohnii during the entire cultivation time.
To reduce the prevalence of patients with breast cancer of unknown stage, we converted the TNM classification into summary staging using an algorithm that allowed categorization of tumors with certain missing TNM stage components into localized, regional, distant, and unknown stage (see Appendix).
Because we detected some errors in the functional annotation for some Unigenes, functional categorization of each Unigene was verified or corrected manually using BLAST functions at PLEXdb.
Because we detected some errors in the functional annotation for some Unigenes, functional categorization of each Unigene were verified manually and corrected if necessary.
