Of 161 candidate clinical study reports identified, 38 were excluded at the screening stage, most often because they were review articles.
Therefore, staging most often includes at least a sentinel-node biopsy to estimate the degree of axillary lymphatic involvement by the tumour; this provides the most important single prognostic factor for patients with breast carcinoma.
Such stages are most often rectangular or square, but they can be triangular (in which case they are called corner stage theatres) or take a variety of irregular shapes that can include side stages (in which case they are referred to as extended stage theatres).
At this stage, treatment most often becomes palliative.
If the patient has a surgical resectable tumor, the SEMS is used as "bridge" to elective single-stage surgery, most often without a stoma, thereby significantly reducing the mortality and morbidity [ 7– 10].
Treatment decisions for colon cancer patients are based on TNM staging, where stage III patients most often receive adjuvant chemotherapy while stage II patients (due to the low risk for metastatic relapse) are only treated beyond surgical resection if some risk factors are observed.
Patients diagnosed with bladder cancer may histologically be divided into two distinct groups with different prognosis; patients with non-muscle-invasive stage Ta and T1 tumours, often treated with a local, organ-sparing approach, and patients with muscle-invasive stages T2 T4 cancers, most often requiring immediate and more radical treatment.
Although he was standing at center stage, he was most often backlighted or in shadow, a singing silhouette.
This benign form of the disease is characterized by development of 1 or 2 parenchymal brain cysts in the coloidal stage and occurs most often in persons who do not eat pork and who do not have contact with infected swine.
The primary stage of syphilis most often begins with the appearance of a painless sore called a "chancre," which is small, hard, circular, and painless.
