She railed against using a frozen specimen at biopsy to justify not waking the patient up until after the
disfiguring surgery was completed allowing for one too many false positives and devastating cancer surgeries.
The unconventional approach spared the young girl from a
disfiguring surgery that is usually used to treat the infection.
It also revealed importance of postoperative adjuvant therapy in patients with gross or microscopic residual tumour to obtain progression-free survival.10 Others recommended aggressive surgery, followed by postoperative radiotherapy.2 One study demonstrated in many cases achieving free margins often involves
disfiguring surgery.
Often, surgical resection with adequate safety margins can be achieved only by
disfiguring surgery, if at all.
Osseointegrated dental implants are also used to rehabilitate patients whose external facial structures, such as noses, cheek bones or ears, are missing due to birth defects or
disfiguring surgery or trauma.
"Having less
disfiguring surgery and the ability to deliver less chemotherapy based on the stage at diagnosis are for me a step forward."
"Having less
disfiguring surgery and the ability to deliver less chemotherapy based on the stage at diagnosis are for me a step forward." This newest study will not quell the debate, according to Dr.
Late diagnosis of oral cancer can lead to
disfiguring surgery, and it causes many deaths a year.
The aim, she said, is to create a noninvasive test that could diagnose head and neck cancer in its earliest stages, before prognosis is poor and available treatments are limited to
disfiguring surgery and grueling regimens of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
Soon after that he developed mouth cancer, which required extensive
disfiguring surgery: his cheek was reconstructed using skin from his non-dominant forearm.
Peter successfully sued Dr Mairs and the medical centre, claiming he might not have needed
disfiguring surgery if he had been sent to hospital earlier.
While our case and the case reported by Tsiodras et al (13) are rare and were characterized by somewhat extenuating circumstances, each represents a clear case of successful treatment of this invasive disease with relatively nontoxic medications that spared both patients radical,
disfiguring surgery.