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overly aggressive treatment

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overly aggressive treatment,
n the excessive use of a procedure, device, or medication intended to mitigate, cure, or halt the progression of a harmful disease; prescribed by some practitioners of both conventional and alternative medicine.


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Such capabilities will yield significant cost savings by minimizing the need for biopsies and unnecessary or overly aggressive treatments as well as eliminating the adverse effects that invariably accompany unnecessary treatments.
Although READ hamartomas are thought to be rare, awareness of the lesion is important since it may be confused with sinonasal adenocarcinoma, leading to overly aggressive treatment.
 
 
 
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