Sentences with phrase «remove such tumors»

Surgery has been traditionally used to remove such tumors.

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«The ability to address any solid tumors that can be surgically removed greatly increases the number of patients who might benefit from such potent immune - stimulating agents, which can be toxic when administered throughout the body.

Surgical oncologists, or cancer surgeons, usually remove breast cancers by relying on tactile feedback and radiologic images of the tumor, such as mammograms and ultrasound images, said M. Catherine Lee, MD, FACS, coauthor of the first study and associate professor of surgery at H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Fla..

Block or remove the estrogen with different types of drugs, such as the commonly prescribed tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors, and the tumor stops growing.

In some cases, surgeons have successfully treated such limited cancer spread, producing long - term survival by removing the primary cancer and one or two distant tumors, off - shoots of the original cancer — usually in the lung or liver.

Relapse is not uncommon especially when dealing with certain types of tumors that are difficult to completely remove, such as sarcomas.

Indications for cisplatin beads include tumors removed with «thin margins» such as:

Surgery is utilized to correct inherited or acquired conformational abnormalities such as entropion, macroblepharon (excessive eyelid length), ectropion or eyelid agenesis, to remove tumors of the eyelids, or to treat distichiae and ectopic cilia.

A tumor in certain locations of the brain such as the brainstem can be extremely dangerous and possibly fatal to remove.

Declawing and tendonectomies should be reserved only for those rare cases in which a cat has a medical problem that would warrant such surgery, such as the need to remove cancerous nail bed tumors.

Cancer often uses a variety of treatments to remove or reduce the tumor along with surgery, such as radiation, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy.

Surgery For all but systemic cancers, such as lymphoma, surgery to remove a tumor is still usually the initial step in treatment.

Radiation is useful on cancers of the limbs, for locally invasive tumors such as nasal carcinomas, and for tumors that can not be completely removed surgically.

Often plastic surgeons perform surgeries that can be considered miraculous, such as removing a large tumor from a person's face and then reconstructing that face to look attractive once more, or rebuilding the nose, mouth and jaw a woman who was the victim of a shotgun blast.

Some surgeries are done to remove some foreign body or malignancy, such as a tumor to prevent its growth or spread.