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Why is a minimum 5 year follow up required for kidney cancer surgery patients?
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∙ 11y ago
To make sure that the kidney is okay.
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How does surgery help lung cancer?
The surgery helps the patients to live longer and identifies whether the cancer cell has spread to other part of the body.
What is done to help a pancreatectomy patient who is undernourished?
Since many patients with pancreatic cancer are undernourished, appropriate nutritional support, sometimes by tube feedings, may be required prior to surgery.
Who should not have plastic surgery?
patients recovering from a heart attack, severe infection (for example, pneumonia ), or other serious illness, patients with infectious hepatitis or HIV infection, cancer patients whose cancer might spread (metastasize).
What studies show that surgery increase lifespan for prostate cancer patients?
NONE. The studies don't exist because surgery does not extend lifespan of prostate cancer patients. Conventional treatment is a scam. 15 year PIVOT study to be completed next year will prove this.
What are the survival rates for medullary thyroid cancer?
Eighty percent of patients with medullary thyroid cancer will live for at least 10 years after surgery.
Who is most likely to get deep vein thrombosis?
a major complication in patients who have had orthopedic surgery or pelvic, abdominal, or thoracic surgery. Patients with cancer and other chronic illnesses (including congestive heart failure
What cancer patients are ineligible for a sentinel lymph node biopsy?
women with cancer in more than one part of the breast; women who have had previous breast surgery, including plastic surgery; women with breast cancer in advanced stages; and women who have had radiation therapy.
What type of treatments do breast cancer patients undergo?
The type of treatments that breast cancer patients undergo include surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy, breast reconstruction. One can go to the Willows Support Team in Canada for more information.
How risky is it for a cancer patient to have an orchiectomy?
Orchiectomy by itself has a very low rate of morbidity and mortality. Patients who are having an orchiectomy as part of cancer therapy have a higher risk of dying from the cancer than from testicular surgery.
Where do you go to get your colon cancer treatment?
You can find information about the colon cancer at the National Cancer institute. With that type of cancer, you will have some surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy, and vaccine therapy. There are also some clinical trials that accepts patients.
What should a cancer patient who is having an orchiectomy do if he plans to have children?
Patients who are having an orchiectomy as treatment for testicular cancer should consider banking sperm if they plan to have children following surgery.
What kind of cancers can Erlotinib Hydrochloride treat?
The service of the U.S National Institute of health states that Erlotinib Hydrochloride can treat patients suffering from Pancreatic cancer. The cancer is still to be removed with surgery.
