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Adjectival Hyphens

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"grade 0: fully active, able to carry on all pre-disease performance without restriction"

Line 3:52 · Only use medical adjectival hyphens where the letters at the end and start of the compound word are the same, e.g. post-transplant. In this case, don't use the hyphen: 'pre-disease'.

Acronyms

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"The ECOG performance status, often just called the performance status (PS), is a scale used to assess how a patient's disease is progressing, assess how the disease affects the daily living abilities of the patient, and determine appropriate treatment and prognosis (it is one of the three components that form the BCLC HCC staging)."

Line 1:16 · 'ECOG' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

"The ECOG performance status, often just called the performance status (PS), is a scale used to assess how a patient's disease is progressing, assess how the disease affects the daily living abilities of the patient, and determine appropriate treatment and prognosis (it is one of the three components that form the BCLC HCC staging)."

Line 1:356 · 'BCLC' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

"The ECOG performance status, often just called the performance status (PS), is a scale used to assess how a patient's disease is progressing, assess how the disease affects the daily living abilities of the patient, and determine appropriate treatment and prognosis (it is one of the three components that form the BCLC HCC staging)."

Line 1:361 · 'HCC' has no definition. Spell it out if it's unfamiliar to the audience.

Oxford Comma

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"grade 2: ambulatory and capable of all self-care but unable to carry out any work activities, up and about more than 50% of waking hours"

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Lint: ecog-performance-status