Sentences with phrase «of tumor resection»

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Surgical resection of the tumor is currently the only chance for a cure.

In other words, regardless of surgery timing, patients who require higher risk procedures, such as a major liver resection due to the presence of larger or multiple metastatic tumors or high - risk colorectal resections, have poorer outcomes than those who underwent more minor surgery.

However, experts continue to debate whether surgical resection of primary tumors and metastatic tumors should be performed at the same time (synchronously) or in separate operations (sequentially).

Purushotham points out, «The feasibility of intraoperative CLI as shown in this study, in combination with the wide applicability of F -18-FDG across a range of solid cancers, provides a stepping stone for clinical evaluation of this technology in other solid cancer types that also experience incomplete tumor resection due to close or involved margins.»

«By accurately assessing tumor resection margins intraoperatively with CLI, surgeons may be able to completely clear the cancer with a single operation, thereby reducing the number of breast cancer patients requiring a second, or even third, surgical procedure.

The trial included three groups of patients: those who did not undergo surgery following infusion (three patients who had multi-focal and recurrent tumors not amenable to surgical resection prior to infusion); those who underwent «late surgery» (three patients who had surgery once at either day 34, day 55, or day 104 following infusion); and those who underwent «early surgery» (four patients who had clear symptomatic progression leading to a combined regimen of CART infusion followed by clinically indicated surgery).

Surgeons gathered to focus on a quality improvement program to address a central issue in treating advanced ovarian cancer — how to optimize surgery to achieve complete removal of all visible tumor — also called optimal resection.

«These tumors occur in up to 23,000 Americans annually, and are typically treated with surgical resection of the tumor followed by chemotherapy and radiation treatment.»

With resection of the tumor — surgical removal — and radiation and chemotherapy, the tumors can go into remission.

July 21, 2006 Novel technique used to remove tumor in infant's liver On June 28, infant Chloe Lobins received a liver resection — removal of part of the organ — and a new chance at life at the University of Chicago Comer Children's Hospital.

Each chart was reviewed for patient demographics, presenting symptoms and signs, tumor location and size, imaging findings, extent of surgical resection, histopathological findings, radiographic follow - up, tumor recurrence, and clinical outcome.

«If by imaging we could predict the tumor grade,» added Robert Reiter, MD, professor of urology at UCLA, «we may be able to spare some patients from prostate resection and monitor their cancer with imaging.»

Surgery to remove tumor is performed by our renowned pediatric general surgery team, each of whom specializes in minimally invasive approaches to tumor resection whenever possible.

TMAs were constructed from a cohort of matched primary and metastatic RCC tumors of thirty - four patients, who had undergone resections between 1972 and 2011.

Five to six weeks after the resection of primary tumors from tumor - bearing NOD / SCID mice, lungs were harvested and fixed in the Bouin's fixative solution overnight.

DENVER — Three manuscripts published in the recent issue of the Journal of Thoracic Oncology, the official journal of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), explored the versatility of liquid biopsies by identifying EGFR mutations using circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) in urine and plasma and examining circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in plasma to predict the risk of lung cancer recurrence after surgical resection.

While open surgery has been the mainstay of treatment for many of these tumors and often offers curative resection, it is not without risks.

Surgery to remove tumors is performed by our renowned pediatric general surgery team, each of whom specializes in minimally invasive approaches to tumor resection whenever possible.

The median overall survival of patients in the Phase 1 resection injection study, where Toca 511 was injected into the wall of the resection cavity after removal of the tumor, exceeds historical controls across a variety of previously reported clinical trials.

Aetna considers navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation experimental and investigational for motor function mapping and / or treatment planning of neurological diseases / disorders (e.g., amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, epilepsy, and resection of brain tumors) because its value and effectiveness has not been established.

Rashid OM, Nagahashi M, Ramachandran S, Yamada A, Graham L, Milstien S, Spiegel S, Bear HD, Takabe K. Resection of the Primary Tumor Improves Survival in Metastatic Breast Cancer by Reduction of Overall Tumor Burden.

We're also optimizing checkpoint inhibitor strategies through our neoadjuvant platform, in which patients are given checkpoint inhibitor drugs prior to surgical resection of their tumors.

The team chose to perform the tumor resection and abdominal reconstruction at the same time to reduce the number of surgeries for the patient and improve her outcome.

Abstract: A presentation of reconstruction maxillofacial surgery following oral and maxillofacial tumor resection and trauma.

Surgical resection is only indicated when the location and size of the tumor is causing a problem, e.g., an axillary lipoma that is causing problems with the mobility of the forelimb.

Surgical procedures include spay, neuter, tumor removal, foreign body retrieval, resection of intestines, lung lobe resections, fracture fixation by bone plating, intramedullary pinning, and external skeletal fixation, and amputation.

The prognosis of benign (non cancerous) anal gland tumors is excellent either after castration or after local resection (removal).

The prognosis is good following surgical resection for most mammary tumors in female dogs, but the prognosis is worse for certain types of tumors in dogs and all mammary tumors in cats.

Lasers replace scalpels in many procedures, and are useful for a wide range of conditions such as soft palate resections, cyst, tumor, and wart removal, and are used exclusively at South County Animal Hospital in declawing.

Tumor downstaging was shown in most patients receiving neoadjuvant treatment with a low incidence of involved [circumferential resection margins (CRMs)-RSB- in the surgical specimens.