In limited disease stages imaging studies, including ultrasound and MRI often fail to identify affected organs.
Patients on the trial receive 2 cycles of induction chemotherapy with docetaxel, cisplatin, and 5-FU followed by re-staging imaging.
Staging imaging revealed no visible visceral or pulmonary metastases or lymph node involvement.
FIGO clinical staging, imaging techniques such as CT scan, MRI and PET sometimes underestimate the extension of tumors.
We employed a theory-based approach, based on current evidence and data on existing practice patterns revealing that providers are the drivers to imaging decisions, to design an intervention to improve guideline -concordant prostate cancer staging imaging across populations.
Apart from nodal staging, imaging contributes to the follow up of patients.
Patients eligibility included mrEMVI on baseline staging imaging followed by treatment with neo-adjuvant CRT followed by curative 'total mesorectal excision' (Heald and Ryall, 1986) surgery as decided by the specialist multidisciplinary team.
Relevant clinical data, including serum PSA and urine NMP22 concentrations, Gleason grade and Gleason score, clinical stage, imaging determined lymph node status and bone scan status, were recorded prospectively from clinical notes and pathology records.
Only three studies have attempted to directly compare US and USFNAC with other imaging techniques in staging N0 HNSCC but cross referencing between them is difficult because of variations in tumour type, nodal stage, imaging protocols, histopathological techniques and criteria for malignancy.
When appearance of the femoral head was intact and the femoral head lateral column was complete, patients in early ARCO III stages (mainly IIIA stages) imaging characterized as solely subchondral fracture and/or minor collapse of the femoral head (less than 2 mm) was also included.
