Aggregation operators (AOs) are utilized to overcome the influence of uncertain and vague information in different fuzzy environments. A multi-attribute decision-making (MADM) technique plays a vital role several fields environments such as networking analysis, risk assessment, cognitive science, recommender systems, signal processing, many more domains ambiguous circumstances. In this article,...

Staging systems are widely used in cancer treatment for classifying patients into groups that have different risks of disease progression and death. This information is the basis for planning appropriate treatment strategies. The staging system most often used in patients with renal cell cancer (RCC) is the tumour-node-metastasis (TNM) staging system, which is based on data from large multicent...

OBJECTIVES To compare chi-squared automatic interaction detection (CHAID) classification trees vs the seventh edition of the TNM classification for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and to assess whether CHAID classification trees might improve results obtained with the TNM classification. DESIGN Patient disease was classified according to CHAID classification trees and the ...

IMPORTANCE Different staging systems for extraocular retinoblastoma have been published, but to date they have not been validated in large cohorts. OBJECTIVE To review 533 patients (and pathology slides) with retinoblastoma included in 4 protocols (January 1, 1988, to December 31, 2009) who received uniform treatment. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective review in a hospital setting. A critical...

Correspondence: Mette Søgaard Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Sdr Skovvej 15, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark Tel +45 99 326 900 Fax +45 99 326 914 Email [email protected] Abstract: Population-based cancer registries play a key role in cancer monitoring, and their utility relies heavily on the completeness and validity of the registered data. It is crucial to reduce in...

Purpose: Traditional clinicopathological variables are used to predict prognosis in differentiated thyroid cancer, including age at diagnosis, tumor size, and extrathyroidal extension (ETE). The American Joint Committee on Cancer/Union for International Cancer Control (AJCC/UICC) 8th edition for thyroid cancer was released in 2016 and included major revisions regarding tumor, node, and metastas...

BACKGROUND ATP-binding cassette sub-family G member 2 (ABCG2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ABCG2 gene. ABCG2 participates in efflux of many chemotherapeutic agents. ABCG2 is often expressed in hematopoietic progenitor or stem cells. Vacuolar-H + -ATPase (V-ATPase) plays a key role in adjusting and maintaining intracellular pH and in regulating the drug tolerance of cells. The T...

AIM Colon adenocarcinoma, is the most common cancer in gastrointesinal system (GIS). The whole world is an important cause of morbidity and mortality. TNM and modified Dukes classification which has great importance in the diagnosis and treatment of Colorectal cancer (CRC). TNM and Modified Dukes classification results of histopathological examination and the demographic characteristics of pati...

AIM To develop a system for clinically mapping conjunctival melanomas, taking into account the tumour's stage of development, location and extent. METHODS Baseline clinical features of 40 patients with conjunctival melanoma, first treated at our centre between 1993 and 2006, were studied. Maps showing sectorial location and circumferential spread in all areas of conjunctiva were digitally gen...