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The text prompting branch encodes clinical information including TNM stage and tumor location via a large language model, and aligns textual semantics with visual features through prompt tuning and a bidirectional attention mechanism. This design achieves end-to-end synergy among imaging details, spatial priors, and high-level clinical knowledge.\n                    <jats:italic>Main Results.<\/jats:italic>\n                    Multi-center experimental results demonstrate that MGTP-Seg achieves a Dice coefficient of 79.86% on the internal validation set, significantly outperforming 3D-UNet, HRNet, SAM-Med3D, and other mainstream methods. Ablation studies confirm the necessity of both branches. 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