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101. Prostate-Cancer-Therapies-Update Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     April 01, 2013 - Lymph node (N) stages Stage Description NX Nearby lymph nodes were not assessed N0 The cancer has … , IIB, III, and IV), with stage I being the least advanced and stage IV being the most advanced. … for high risk • High risk (roughly corresponding to stage IIB): a PSA level of more than 20 ng/mL, … Prostate cancer that is believed to be confined to the prostate gland (T1–T2, NX, M0; or stage I–II) … not stratified by stage.

102. RENAL MASS AND LOCALIZED RENAL CANCER *the following questions are recommended to address the healthcare tests and/or treatments this program should consider: • What indicators can be used to predict malignancy and/or aggressiveness of… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - What impact do tumor characteristics (size, stage, grade, histologic subtype and other histologic features … Immunohistochemistry Imaging findings (size, stage, degree of enhancement, nephrometry score and … Indicators for renal cell cancer therapy include stage (based on the TNM classification system), as well … The AUA first developed a Guideline for the Management of the Clinical Stage 1 Renal Mass in 2009. … In addition to the subject matter encompassed by the current Clinical Stage 1 Renal Mass guideline, the

103. Liver-Cancer Research-Protocol (pdf file)
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     July 24, 2013 - all individuals with other causes for cirrhosis (including alcoholic cirrhosis), and patients with stage … imaging techniques are available to identify the presence of lesions, diagnose HCC, and determine the stage … There is clinical uncertainty about which imaging technique to use to diagnose and stage HCC. … What is the comparative test performance of imaging techniques to predict HCC tumor stage? i. … Outcomes Diagnostic outcomes include: • Measures for accuracy of staging (stage reclassification).

104. Treatment of Non-metastatic Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2020 - Stage 2 cancers are muscle-invasive, and higher stage cancers invade beyond the muscle layer into surrounding … fat (stage classification T3 bladder cancer). … Stage T4a cancers, which go beyond the fat into the prostate, vaginal wall, or uterus, are also still … Approximately 25 percent of newly diagnosed bladder cancers present as stage 2 or higher tumors. 6 Once … Does the comparative effectiveness differ according to tumor characteristics, such as histology, stage

105. Digestive Diseases | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 30, 2017 - Technical Brief Archived December 14, 2012 Gene Expression Profiling for Predicting Outcomes in Stage

106. Digestive Diseases | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     May 30, 2017 - Technical Brief Archived December 14, 2012 Gene Expression Profiling for Predicting Outcomes in Stage

107. Prostate Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     September 17, 2020 - Treatment often depends on the stage of the cancer. … How fast the cancer grows and how different it is from surrounding tissue helps determine the stage.

108. Treatment Intensification in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - Outcomes – a) development of CVD (acute myocardial infarction and stroke), CKD (including End Stage … without CVD and CKD; b) progression of CVD (acute myocardial infarction and stroke), CKD (including End Stage … Kidney Disease: A Rapid Response Review Systematic Review Aug 20, 2024 Treatment of Stage

109. Local Therapies for Unresectable Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Comparative Effectiveness Review | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     December 01, 2019 - for patients with a single lesion, regardless of its size. 8 Disease Classification Both tumor stage … treatment algorithms in Europe and North America. 7 It takes into account factors related to tumor stage … Another scoring system for chronic liver disease is the Model for End-Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score … addition, the use of various disease classification systems and the inability to translate disease stage … In 1999 the BCLC staging system was published which links the stage of disease to specific treatment

110. Disposition of Comments Report for Imaging Techniques for the Diagnosis and Staging of Hepatocellular Carcinoma (pdf file)
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     October 23, 2014 - Clearly the goal of any surveillance program is the detection of a deadly disease at a curable stage … Peer Reviewer #5 Introduction The introduction provides the necessary background to set the stage … Many of the studies evaluating imaging for staging HCC have used the TNM stage, but this is not the … For each stage of care, appropriate testing and treatment are outlined. … That is, changes in therapeutic management or stage reclassification are appropriate terminal points

111. Cancer Chemotherapy | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 20, 2024 - cancerchemotherapy.html Products Systematic Review August 20, 2024 Treatment of Stage … I-III Squamous Cell Anal Cancer Research Protocol August 18, 2023 Treatment of Stage

112. Imaging for the Pretreatment Staging of Small Cell Lung Cancer | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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113. Effects of Dietary Sodium and Potassium Intake on Chronic Disease Outcomes and Related Risk Factors | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     January 01, 2019 - thought to meet or exceed the nutrient requirements of almost all individuals in a particular life stage … to the clinical outcome of interest, as well as studies exclusively reporting on patients with end stage … Studies exclusively reporting on patients with end stage renal disease, heart failure, HIV, or cancer … to the clinical outcomes of interest, as well as studies exclusively reporting on patients with end stage … A two-stage hierarchical regression model for meta-analysis of epidemiologic nonlinear dose–response

114. Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Alzheimer's-type Dementia (CATD) | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     August 01, 2020 - as age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, depression, pre-treatment cognitive or functional level/CATD stage … Reasons for exclusion at this stage will be reported. … For individual CATD treatment studies, for each outcome of interest (i.e., stage, global cognition and … Based on the frequency with which they are reported, we will decide which specific stage, cognitive ( … than at CATD stage, so that recognizing CATD currently is a higher priority than recognizing MCI.

115. Diagnosis and Treatment of Clinical Alzheimer's-type Dementia (CATD) (pdf file)
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     November 02, 2018 - age, sex, race/ethnicity, education, depression, pre-treatment cognitive or functional level/CATD stage … Reasons for exclusion at this stage will be reported. … Based on the frequency with which they are reported, we will decide which specific stage, cognitive … than at CATD stage, so that recognizing CATD currently is a higher priority than recognizing MCI. … Specified that we would determine which validated stage, cognitive, functional, quality of life,

116. X-Rays | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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117. X-Rays | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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118. Technical Brief 16 Disposition of Comments Report (pdf file)
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     July 29, 2014 - Framework: ACP (and thus tools for ACP) vary by the target group’s stage of life and health. … These are real decisions for person in stage 1 of ACP (healthy) and they are appropriately not focused … In stage one (healthy), a key index decision is “Who will be my surrogate if one should be needed?” … For someone in stage three (advanced stage of serious illness), a proxy decision is still critical if … At what stage of disease? Should the doctor be allowed to initiate this discussion?

119. Comparative effectiveness of ultrasound (US), conventional computed tomography (CT), multidetector computed tomography (MDCT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), fludeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) or FDG-PET/CT for the… | Effective Health Care (EHC) Program
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     November 01, 2017 - (For example, an ethnic group, stage or severity of a disease.)

120. Evidence-based Practice Center Systematic Review Protocol (pdf file)
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     March 13, 2012 - I) to the upper abdomen (FIGO Stage III).10 The possibility of rapid spread from the ovary means that … many cancers identified at Stage I may represent a subgroup of less aggressive tumors rather than a … Ovarian cancer can either be detected at a given stage or progress to the next stage prior to detection … I cancer Undetected Stage I cancer Detected Stage II cancer Undetected Stage II cancer … Detected Stage III cancer Undetected Stage III cancer Detected Stage IV cancer Undetected