Sentence examples for surveillance stage from inspiring English sources

Most, though not all, of the information that triggered this week's alerts concerned the early surveillance stage dating back several years, rather than later operational activities.

Among the patients who answered the questionnaire, 22% were at the screening or diagnosis phase, 32% were on treatment and 46% were at the surveillance stage.

An analysis of the primary tumour histopathology was performed on 103 patients managed by orchidectomy and surveillance for stage I seminoma.

Routine measurement of LDH in patients on surveillance for stage I germ cell tumours does not add to the early detection of relapse.

In view of the difficulties of identifying patients at risk and of detecting early relapse, surveillance for stage I seminoma should remain a research protocol.

It will now be interesting to see in future cohorts how the MELmiR-7 panel will perform in the surveillance of stage III patients to allow for an earlier detection of tumor recurrence, so that adjuvant, systemic or targeted therapies can be offered at an earlier time point, for the benefit of the patients affected by this fatal disease.

Thus, it has been noted that results of functional MRI tests are often discordant particularly for lesions found in patients undergoing active surveillance (early stage disease or small-volume tumour) and that concordant high scoring results are most often found in larger lesions with higher Gleason scores.

In the absence of this or other risk factors for pelvic disease (previous scrotal or inguinal surgery, maldescent, tunica vaginalis invasion, retroperitoneal lymph node dissection or bulky abdominal nodes), routine pelvic CT for patients on surveillance for stage I disease may constitute unnecessary radiation [ 25].

Some may go further – of 170 patients undergoing surveillance for stage I NS, all recurrences were detected with clinical history and examination, markers and abdominopelvic CT, and it was felt that the omission of chest radiographs would not have altered the outcome (Sharir et al, 1999).

(ref. 23); however, the present study was neither powered nor designed to measure CNS-specific relapse rates, especially as head CTs were not in routine use for recurrence surveillance or staging at that time.

Recently, a surveillance programme for stage I IV patients is used; for example, stage III patients are staged once a year via a computerised tomography (CT -scan.