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名詞

downstaging (usually uncountable, plural downstagings)

1. (oncology) A reduction in the stage of a cancer, from a more to a less threatening stage.

   Antonym: upstaging

   Hypernym: restaging

   • 2014, Nicholas J. Zyromski, Handbook of Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery‎, →ISBN:

     The goal of downstaging is to decrease the size and number of tumors in patients who do not meet the criteria for transplantation on initial evaluation.

語源 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

動詞

downstaging

1. present participle and gerund of downstage