The access window left from the biopsy was used to accommodate a flexible tube for decompression and subsequent volume reduction of the lesion in an attempt to minimize the need for
mutilating surgery in such a young patient.
Aggressive angiomyxoma: multimodality treatments can avoid
mutilating surgery. Eur J Surg Oncol 2006;32(10): 1217-21.
When disease is detected early, patient can almost be cured without
mutilating surgery like mastectomy, leaving women with less psychological morbidity.5 Breast cancer awareness to diagnose women at an early stage has been a challenge for our society.
If we continue to do more of the same, i.e., the conventional approach of
mutilating surgery, toxic chemotherapy drugs and cancer-causing irradiation; we will continue to get more of the same results!
The Crawfords allege in the lawsuit that the South Carolina Department of Social Services decided to perform "dangerous and
mutilating surgery" to make the child a girl.
Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians, New York, who adds that, today, young mothers of small children are facing
mutilating surgery, debilitating chemotherapy, and even death.
The use of adjuvant chemotherapy with radiotherapy is gaining popularity because it reduces the need for
mutilating surgery in the head and neck due to RMS.
Frantz's tumor: is
mutilating surgery always justified in young patients.
In patient 1, trimonthly examinations during a 2-year follow-up revealed no aggravation, thus confirming that
mutilating surgery is not always indicated.
He says: "Sharon and Jacqueline were only young when they faced what is by any standards
mutilating surgery.
He added: "Sharon and Jacqueline were only young women when they faced what is, by any standards,
mutilating surgery.
Although long-term survival data will take years to gather, Bonadonna says, "Let's begin to dismantle the
mutilating surgery. Then we shall see whether these data will make an impact on survival figures." He predicts that by 1994, the 100th anniversary of the first published description of radical mastectomy in a surgical journal, the procedure will be all but obsolete -- an opinion echoed by oncologist Nikolay Dimitrov of Michigan State University in East Lansing.