The machine gun fire is yet another industry trick: While real, the gun was modified for stage purposes to make it safe and inoperable for firing live rounds it fires "half load" blanks in the video, which are half as loud as the real thing.
Pre-therapeutic [18F]FDG PET for staging purpose was performed on a Sensation 64 Biograph PET/CT scanner (Siemens, Erlangen, Germany) with injected activity of 340 MBq (delay 60 min p.i).
The three blocks are subdivided into seven stages: Purpose, State variables and scales, Process overview and scheduling, Design concepts, Initialization, Input, and Submodels.
A right para-aortic lymph node dissection was carried out routinely for staging purpose in pancreatic head tumours and followed by pancreaticoduodenectomy in case no metastatic lymph nodes were found at frozen section pathology.
A drawback of most studies published in the field of asymptomatic VTEs in cancer patients is the retrospective study design as well as the close association to CT scans mainly performed for staging purpose.
When only mucin pools are found on gross examination, the entire suspicious zone must be sampled for accurate staging purpose, as residual viable tumour cells can be present upon microscopic examination in most cases [ 7].
108 patients underwent one basal F-FDG PET-CT study for tumor staging purpose and they were subjected to radical therapy (surgical intervention or radical radiotherapy); 29 patients underwent two F-FDG PET-CT studies, before and after receiving chemotherapy, for therapy monitoring purpose.
None of the patients had asymptomatic PE confirmed by CT scan performed for staging purpose, neither did the patients included in our study show any signs of a DVT event, as defined by swelling, tender or pain of the lower limbs in the weeks before inclusion in the study.
Currently no standardized blood test exists for breast cancer screening or staging purposes.
