mutilating surgery

A ‘heroic’ intervention entailing massive excision of tissue, often from a broadly invasive malignancy, to remove tumour and/or metastases, regardless of ‘cost’ vis-à-vis deterioration of quality of life, potential infection and other co-morbidity

mutilating surgery

Surgery A 'heroic' intervention entailing massive excision of tissue, often from a broadly invasive malignancy, to remove tumor and/or metastases, regardless of 'cost' vis-á-vis deterioration of quality of life, potential infection and other co-morbidity
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Aggressive angiomyxoma: multimodality treatments can avoid mutilating surgery.
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When disease is detected early, patient can almost be cured without mutilating surgery like mastectomy, leaving women with less psychological morbidity.
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the conventional approach of mutilating surgery, toxic chemotherapy drugs and cancer-causing irradiation; we will continue to get more of the same results
Sound off: healing from cancer
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.
Abortions linked to rising rate
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.
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Frantz's tumor: is mutilating surgery always justified in young patients.
An unusual presentation of a solid pseudopapillary pancreatic tumor
In patient 1, trimonthly examinations during a 2-year follow-up revealed no aggravation, thus confirming that mutilating surgery is not always indicated.
Amyloid tumor of the larynx associated with plasma cell infiltration: differential diagnosis
He says: "Sharon and Jacqueline were only young when they faced what is by any standards mutilating surgery.
CANCER: THE HYPE, THE HOPE, THE FACTS; CANCER AFFECTS 1 IN 3 OF US AND BY 2025 ONE IN TWO PEOPLE WILL SUFFER FROM SOME FORM OF THE DISEASE. LEADING CANCER SPECIALIST KAROL SIKORA DISCUSSES THE ADVANCES MADE IN TREATING, AND BEATING, THE DISEASE
He added: "Sharon and Jacqueline were only young women when they faced what is, by any standards, mutilating surgery.
CURSED FROM BIRTH TO LOSE MY WOMANHOOD; DEADLY LEGACY: SHARON'S GRIM CHOICE IN BATTLE WITH CANCER
Although long-term survival data will take years to gather, Bonadonna says, "Let's begin to dismantle the mutilating surgery.
New treatment may reduce breast surgeries
The objectives in using hyperthermia therapy to treat children are: "(1) improvement of local tumor control, (2) avoidance of mutilating surgery and (3) improvement of survival," according to Rudiger Wessalowski, Associate Professor at the Clinic of Pediatric Oncology and head of the university's hyperthermia program.
University of Dusseldorf Orders BSD-2000/3D/MR Cancer Treatment System
The rare possibility of occurrence of these tumours with high index of suspicion may prevent one from doing unnecessary mutilating surgery for a disease which can be cured by chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Primary non-hodgkin lymphoma of the breast - a case report and review of literature

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