* Breast cancer: In breast cancer classification, staging is usually based on TNM, but staging in I – IV may be used as well.

The TNM classification is also used by the American Joint Committee on Cancer ( AJCC ) and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics ( FIGO ).

In the TNM ( Tumor, Node, Metastasis ) system, clinical stage and pathologic stage are denoted by a small " c " or " p " before the stage ( e. g., cT3N1M0 or pT2N0 ).

* Testicular cancer: uses TNM along with a measure of blood serum markers ( TNMS ).

In the TNM classification, carcinoma in situ is reported as TisN0M0 ( Stage 0 ).

Sensory ataxia presents itself with an unsteady " stomping " gait with heavy heel strikes, as well as a postural instability that is usually worsened when the lack of proprioceptive input cannot be compensated for by visual input, such as in poorly lit environments.

It usually presents with genital ulceration and swollen lymph nodes in the groin, but it may also manifest as proctitis ( inflammation of the rectum ), fever or swollen lymph nodes in other regions of the body.

Books featuring Brown are subdivided into a number — usually ten or more — of ( possibly interlinked ) short stories, each of which presents a mystery.

The LLC sublayer presents a uniform interface to the user of the data link service, usually the network layer.

They are referenced a number of times in the series for giving the Meldrews bizarre and always unwanted presents, usually involving a garish photograph of themselves.

* Repertory theatre – Western theatre and opera production in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation or rotation.

Reality television is a television programming that presents purportedly unscripted melodramatic or " humorous " situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded.

Historical fiction presents readers with a story that takes place during a notable period in history, and usually during a significant event in that period.

The generalized form usually presents with a descending pattern.

The use of cheques in a scam hinges on a US law ( and common practice in other countries ) concerning cheques: when an account holder presents a cheque for deposit or to cash, the bank must ( or in other countries, usually ) make the funds available to the account holder within 1 – 5 business days, regardless of how long it actually takes for the cheque to clear and funds to be transferred from the issuing bank.

Graves ' disease is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism ( 60-90 % of all cases ), and usually presents itself during midlife, but also appears in children, adolescents, and the elderly.

It usually encourages people to act foolishly or credulously by falling for patent nonsense that the hoaxer deliberately presents as reality.

In many countries with a Roman Catholic heritage, All Saints Day and All Souls Day have long been holidays in which people take the day off work, go to cemeteries with candles and flowers, and give presents to children, usually sweets and toys.

Another possible cause of diarrhea is irritable bowel syndrome ( IBS ) which usually presents with abdominal discomfort relieved by defecation and unusual stool ( diarrhea or constipation ) for at least 3 days a week over the previous 3 months.

A repertory theatre ( also called repertory, rep or stock ) can be a Western theatre and opera production in which a resident company presents works from a specified repertoire, usually in alternation or rotation.

The play depicts Socrates, a contemporary of Aristophanes, as tinkering with odd devices and performing implausible experiments to determine the nature of the clouds and sky, and presents his philosophical method as a means for deceiving others and escaping blame, closer to the later descriptions of his opponents, the Sophists, than to those usually ascribed to him.

The HMI system usually presents the information to the operating personnel graphically, in the form of a mimic diagram.

But the possibility of Internet download without the ability to restrict physical distribution within national boundaries presents legal problems that are usually solved by selling language or translation rights rather than national rights.

Symptomatic infection ( 40 % of cases ) usually presents as an influenza-like illness with fever, cough, headaches, rash, and myalgia ( muscle pain ).

Sisyphus, son of Aiolos was a more than mortal figure: for mortals Thanatos usually presents an inexorable fate, but he was only once successfully overpowered, by the mythical hero Herakles.

Although he is usually remembered as a wise and just ruler, one story presents him in a less flattering light.

This article first presents a simple set of rules which are, except for wording, identical to those usually referred to as the Tromp-Taylor Rules, themselves close in most essential respects to the Chinese rules.

Bert's Aunt Matilda is never shown, but is often talked about, usually concerning Bert buying presents for her for numerous reasons.

The condition usually comes to light after vigorous exercise and usually presents in younger, otherwise healthy people.

Land which is unsuitable for arable farming usually has at least one of the following deficiencies: no source of fresh water ; too hot ( desert ); too cold ( Arctic ); too rocky ; too mountainous ; too salty ; too rainy ; too snowy ; too polluted ; or too nutrient poor.

Later printed breviaries usually have woodcut illustrations, interesting in their own right but the poor relation of the beautifully illuminated breviaries.

* Cyanosis is an abnormal blueness of the skin, usually a sign of poor oxygen intake.

This provision usually applies, apart from torture, to cases of severe police violence and poor conditions in detention.

The acting is usually described as flat and generally poor, and as not improving, or sometimes, worsening, the already weak script.

Many gags focus on this ; his inability to get a date is usually attributed to his lack of social skills, his poor taste in clothes ( Garfield remarked in one strip after seeing his closet that " two hundred moths committed suicide "; in another, the " geek police " ordered Jon to " throw out his tie "), and his eccentric interests which range from stamp collecting to measuring the growth of his toenails to watching movies with " polka ninjas ".

Other gags focused on Jon's poor social skills and inability to get a date ; before he started dating Liz, he often tried to get dates, usually without success ( in one strip, after failing to get a date with " Nancy ", he tried getting a date with her mother and grandmother ; he ended up getting " shot down by three generations ".

A few talented poor boys did go to university, but usually they were helped by aristocratic or gentry sponsors.

Industrial proletariat, the new underprivileged class, were usually poor peasants or townspeople forced by deteriorating conditions to migrate and search for work in urban centers in countries of their origin or abroad.

Despite poor performances from the usually steady Chris Capuano and more nagging injuries to Ben Sheets, the Brewers found themselves in a heated pennant race with Chicago's North Siders.

Robinson returned to live in Ireland at the end of 2010, and has set up The Mary Robinson Foundation-Climate Justice, which aims to be ' a centre for thought leadership, education and advocacy on the struggle to secure global justice for those many victims of climate change who are usually forgotten-the poor, the disempowered and the marginalised across the world.

Additionally, the academics, who themselves tend to eschew any attempt at interpretation, complained that the English translations were usually of poor quality, seemed to display little or no knowledge of 16th-century French, were tendentious and, at worst, were sometimes twisted to fit the events to which they were supposed to refer ( or vice versa ).

Other common ad-hoc algorithms try to emulate manual shuffling with poor success: the permutations they produce are usually far from random and the running times are poor.

Imitation pearls are also widely sold in inexpensive jewelry, but the quality of their iridescence is usually very poor, and often, artificial pearls are easily distinguished from genuine pearls.

Wary of the power of wealthy merchants, Qing rulers limited their trading licences and usually refused them permission to open new mines, except in poor areas.

Favelas are home to the extremely poor of Brazil and usually lack much infrastructure and public services, but in some cases, already have reached the structure needed for a city.

These suburbs, however are usually not in poor neighborhoods, unlike the banlieues of France.

Wuxia heroes are usually bound by a code of chivalry that requires them to right wrongs, especially when the helpless or the poor are oppressed.

For the rest of the 17th century, other Dutch ( and other nationalities ) travellers encountered the coast, usually unintentionally, as many shipwrecks along the coast of ships that deviated ( because of poor navigation and storms ) from the Brouwer Route illustrate ..

Christian traditional societies ( usually in poor communities ) used to respect bread since Jesus symbolised his body with it.

These vary in effectiveness usually failing from high false positive alarms, poor database configuration, or lack of active intrusion monitoring.

As an area of research and development, arid-zone agriculture, or desert agriculture, includes studies of how to increase the agricultural productivity of lands dominated by lack of freshwater, an abundance of heat and sunlight, and usually one or more of extreme winter cold, short rainy season, saline soil or water, strong dry winds, poor soil structure, over-grazing, limited technological development, poverty, political instability.

This is usually due to poor crossover designs or choices ( too high crossover point or insufficient crossover slope ) used in many computer and home theater systems ; localization also comes from port noise and from typically large amounts of harmonic distortion in the subwoofer design.