radical surgery

radical surgery

Surgery consisting of major excision or restructuring of a body region; RS is most often used aggressive or advanced cancer Examples 'Heroic' operations–eg, forequarter amputation, hindquarter amputation, hemipelvectomy, 'Commando' operation–radical neck. See Heroic surgery. Cf Palliative surgery.

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radical surgery

Extensive and often mutilating surgery designed to remove all the diseased tissue, usually cancerous. From the Latin radix, a root.

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