Sentence examples for thorough staging from inspiring English sources

At the time of first relapse, all patients underwent thorough staging with radiology, biochemistry, and clinical examination.

Thus, it is likely that the survival improvement associated with lymphadenectomy over time is due to an increase in proportion of true early-stage patients after a thorough staging procedure, and subsequent removal of inaccurately staged patients with true stage IIIC disease.

The stage migration phenomenon occurs when comparisons are made between groups of patients who have undergone less or more thorough staging techniques and as such is likely to occur when the comparisons are made over a time period which spans the introduction of new technology.

The identification of a higher proportion of palliative patients in the re-audit may reflect the introduction of the directive that all patients should be discussed at MDT with more thorough staging and assessment of irresectable metastatic disease and medical infirmity.

SCENE 2: O'Neill, a failed poet before he was a playwright, provided unnecessarily thorough stage directions.

By allelotyping these 20 DNA pools on 500K SNP microarrays, we can conduct much more thorough stage 2 screening.

Only ovarian cancer patients who have undergone a thorough surgical staging procedure, with early-stage and well or moderately differentiated tumours, may be considered as cured by surgery alone, and therefore do not require adjuvant therapy (Trimbos et al, 1991).

However, there is possibly a stage migration effect between the more thorough pathological staging in operations with lymphadenectomy, as in the university hospital, and understaging in patients undergoing a transhiatal esophageal resection.

Future implications for patient management will be a thorough baseline staging and assessment of disease activity, therapy response monitoring and prognosis prediction.

According to the authors, these patients would benefit from more thorough preoperative staging and alternative neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimens, including induction chemotherapy.

Regarding prognostic factors determined by HR MRI, Hunter et al. have investigated a group of patients at increased risk of synchronous metastatic disease who would benefit from a more thorough preoperative staging and alternative neoadjuvant chemotherapy regimens, including induction chemotherapy.