Sentence examples for stage modality from inspiring English sources

stage, modality of surgical treatment, age, hormonal state (pre- or post-menopause) and 5-year survival were known for each patient.

In order to achieve system wide allocative efficiency in health care, information is required across a broad range of interventions, considering target diseases, age groups, disease stage, modality and delivery settings.

EMR of Barrett's esophagus (BE related superficial neoplasms represents an efficacious staging modality.

However, to date there is not a single staging modality that could spare these patients a bilateral neck dissection.

Use of positron emission tomography for mediastinal staging should not be relied on as a sole staging modality, and positive findings should be confirmed by mediastinoscopy.

This may have potential clinical utility as whole-body MRI is currently being evaluated as a staging modality in different tumour sites such as multiple myeloma.

However, it has yet to replace CT as a primary staging modality.

Subsequently, we used endoluminal MRI as staging modality on ex vivo gastric carcinomas.

Therefore, MRI might be used as a single staging modality leading to a reduction of techniques associated with radiation.

MR + USPIO may have high potential value as a new non-invasive staging modality in oesophageal cancer.

5 In recent years, dual-modality positron emission tomography/CT (PET/CT) imaging has emerged as an important staging modality for systemic malignancies.