pretherapeutic en · ADJ
Etymology
From pre- + therapeutic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Prior to therapy
Inclusion criteria were: (1) available digitally stored CT scans taken within 30 days pre-operatively for initial pretherapeutic staging and suitable for adequate image analysis; (2) presence of a frozen serum sample collected at time of diagnosis (IRB approval number 366/2003 –Medical University of Vienna; written informed consent was given).
2015 October 13, “Skeletal Muscle Depletion and Markers for Cancer Cachexia Are Strong Prognostic Factors in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI: