The type of curative-intent surgery undertaken in the remaining 80 out of 225 patients were not collected.
The issue of case mix and variation in the quality of care is not expected to be a problem, as health centres are standardized in terms of their staffing and other resources and the types of curative and preventive programmes that they run.
In case a CS is invited to participate, but is still receiving, or scheduled to receive, intensive (cancer) treatment (e.g., chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery or another type of intensive curative treatment), he/she will be wait-listed for inclusion until (at least) six weeks after completing such treatment(s).
Yet, although our quantitative findings show a growth in the number of targeted and preventive interventions in the 'general population' of interventions, this growth is not significantly different from the growth of other types of programs (curative interventions).
According to the effects of the drug, there are different types of treatment: – Curative; the drug eliminates the cause of the disease (e.g. antibiotics).
For some tumours including cancer of the uterine cervix, larynx, breast, and prostate, as well as Hodgkin disease and seminoma (a type of testicular cancer)—curative doses of radiation can be applied without causing serious damage to surrounding tissues.
Peritoneal dissemination is reported to be the most frequent type of recurrence after curative resection in such gastric cancer cases (Baba et al, 1989; Kodera et al, 1996).
The authors conclude that HR MRI is accurate to determine the extent of colorectal tumors in the pelvis and can therefore be used to determine the type of surgery required for curative resection, emphasizing that HR MRI should always be used in the staging of patients with locally advanced pelvic colorectal cancer.
As new therapies of curative intent emerge for type 1 and type 2 diabetes and actuarial and scientific evidence regarding prognosis builds, these issues will surely require further deliberation.
