SizeAbstractObjective To compare the accuracy of different \\{MR\\} sequences to measure tumor size. Methods Eighty-six women (mean age: 53 years (30–78)) who underwent preoperative \\{MRI\\} for breast cancer were included. Maximal diameters of the index tumor (IT) and of the whole ...
IU School of Medicine's Spyridon Bakas said the new recommendations are a much-needed update to the current standard of care in which individual radiologists measure tumor size, which dictates treatment options. Credit: Liz Kaye, Indiana University An international, multidisciplinary team of leading n...
While you can control the outcome to some extent through good follow-up and lifestyle habits, when it comes to getting life insurance, other uncontrollable factors will come into play when the life insurance company reviews your application. Can you get life insurance if you have a terminal ill...
IMPRESSION:There are bilateral calcified thyroid nodules. The nodules measure under 1 cm in diameter. The nodules are nonspecific in appearance and results should be correlated with clinical and laboratory data. Follow up ultrasound needed in 12 months due to the calcifications. ...
As a measure of short-term surgical outcome, the 1-month survival rate has been widely used for the evaluation of treatment effectiveness [23]. For example, it has been reported that logistic regression was used to identify two covariables associated with 1-month mortality in 5428 surgically ...
Which symptoms you have depend on the size of the tumor and where it is located. Symptoms can includenausea,vomiting,headache, numbness, and trouble controlling when you go to the bathroom. This type of tumor usually grows slowly. It rarely spreads to other organs. Doctors treat them with su...
They are perhaps 1/100th the size of a human cell and might measure 1 micrometer long. Bacteria are completely independent organisms able to eat and reproduce - they are sort of like fish swimming in the ocean of your body. Under the right conditions bacteria reproduce very quickly: One ...
However, liposomes suffer from various disadvantages which include their short half-life in the circulation system, although it can be enhanced by better controlling the size of the liposome vesicle and modifying its composition. Even though liposomes are suitable to encapsulate non polar drugs in ...
and her colleaguesmapped 131 tumour regionsfrom 78 people with cancer types that show up in the breasts, colon, pancreas, kidneys, uterus and the bile ducts that connect the liver and gall bladder to the small intestine. They used a technique called single-cell sequencing to measure which gene...
There are two commonly used scores to measure physical status, ECoG score and KPS score. The ECoG score is usually used as one of the recruitment conditions for subsequent relapses to participate in clinical trials. The ECoG score of recruited patients is usually required to be 0~1. ...