unresectable cancer
unresectable cancer
Surgical oncology A malignancy which can't be surgically removed, due either to the number of metastatic foci, or because it is in a surgical danger zone. See Heroic surgery. McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Unresectable cancer
A tumor that cannot be completely removed by surgery.
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References in periodicals archive
S-1 monotherapy is considered a second- or third-line chemotherapy for
unresectable cancer [7].
These new strategies of combining complementary treatments now apply not only to patients with
unresectable cancers but also to those with resectable disease, for whom, according to current evidence, neoadjuvant and adjuvant chemotherapy improve survival.
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