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. 2013 Sep 15;2013:538376. doi: 10.1155/2013/538376

Table 1.

Response to treatment graded by Morphology, Attenuation, Size, and Structure (MASS) criteria*.

Response category MASS criteria description
Favorable response No new lesions and either of the following:
(1) decrease in tumor size ≥20%;
(2) ≥1 predominantly solid enhancing lesion with marked central necrosis or marked decreased attenuation

Indeterminate response Does not fit criteria for favorable or unfavorable response

Unfavorable response Either of the following:
(1) increase in tumor size ≥20% without marked central necrosis or marked decreased attenuation;
(2) new metastases, marked central fill-in, or new enhancement of a previously homogeneously hypoattenuating, nonenhancing mass

*Described by Smith et al. [23].