Sentence examples for staging advanced from inspiring English sources

Similarly, in a study of 21 patients with primary esophageal cancer undergoing PET-CT staging, advanced stage tumors demonstrated greater heterogeneity at filter values 1.5 2.0.

A meta-analysis demonstrated that EUS has 95% sensitivity and 98% specificity in staging advanced (T4) rectal cancer.

At present CT remains the most useful imaging modality but recent MR technical developments allow similar accuracy in staging advanced disease.

F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET is increasingly used in staging advanced or recurrent breast cancer and in monitoring response to therapy and has received approval for Medicare re-imbursement for these clinical indications [ 8].

They found in a group of 280 patients that CT and MR imaging had similar accuracy for staging advanced ovarian cancer.

We further divided all cases into two groups according to FIGO stage (early stage; stage I+II, advanced stage; stage III+IV).

Finally, as expected, we found an association between advanced T stage, advanced node status and poor tumor differentiation.

The 5-year relative survival markedly decreased as the stage advanced.

Cortactin amplification was related to increased lymph node stage, advanced disease stage and reduced survival (Rodrigo et al, 2000).

We used the same three-step model described above, also including stage (advanced or early) as a variable.

Three patterns of up-regulation were found in trichome developing stage, advanced trichome elongation stage, and the trichome-cell-determining stage.