Meanings of assessable disease in English

Each study was well balanced for the number of patients with measurable or assessable disease on either treatment regimen.

Results: One hundred sixty-two patients were treated: 138 with measurable and 24 with assessable disease.

Overall survival and survival of responders only was not significantly different, but patients with assessable disease tended to do better.

Factors associated with achieving CR with systemic chemotherapy alone included FOLFOX4 treatment, patients with assessable disease, or a single site of metastasis.

Major clinical responses, time to progression, and survival were analyzed and compared in patients with measurable or assessable disease using standard statistical methods.