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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"radical surgery"”.
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Abdominoperineal excision for distal rectal carcinoma. Oncological outcome and aspects of self-assessed quality of life
… to decrease intraoperative perforations and non-radical surgery and therefor improve local cancer control and decrease rates of local recurrences as compared to standard APE. This thesis aims to investigate if the oncological outcome of ELAPE is superior to standard APE and to explore the …
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Chemoradiation in advanced vulval carcinoma
… 000 women annually. The treatment of choice is radical vulvectomy and inguinal lymph node dissection. ‘Advanced’ vulval carcinomas involve midline structures (such as clitoris, urethra or anus) and/or adjacent pelvic organs or bone, and adequate excision may require urinary diversion, colostomy …
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Transanal endoscopic operation (TEO) - local experience in a South African setting
… tumour excision avoids the complications of radical surgery. Transanal endoscopic operation (TEO) and Transanal endoscopic microsurgery (TEMS) are two equivalent techniques that have been widely adopted as the treatments of choice for large rectal adenomas and selected rectal cancers but has …
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Lymphoedema following surgery for breast cancer
… exceeds the original expectations of the breast surgery patient (Tobin, Lacey, Meyer, and Mortimer, 1993). It is estimated that one hundred thousand women in Australia have developed lymphoedema (or will develop it before they die) as a result of mastectomy and radiotherapy alone (Casley-Smith, …
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The metabolic sequelae of oesophago-gastric resection
… This results in significant morbidity after radical surgery for oesophago-gastric cancer, in particular post-prandial hypoglycaemia, altered appetite, early satiety and noxious post-prandial symptoms. By profiling and challenging the gut hormone axis in healthy volunteers and patients who had …
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Evaluation of the Survival Effect for Various Treatment Modalities Among Stage II and III Rectal Cancer Patients in California, 1994-2009
… survival for perioperative (PeriOP) CRT versus surgery alone and for PreOP versus PostOP CRT from 1994 through 2009 among patients receiving radical surgery for stage II and III rectal cancer (RC).</p> <p><strong>Patients and Methods</strong>: We conducted a nonconcurrent cohort study evaluating …
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A retrospective review of outcomes in patients with node-negative stage IB cervical cancer treated with adjuvant standard pelvic field radiation versus small field pelvic field radiation
… with stage IB cervical cancer treated with radical surgery between 1984 and 2010 at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. Two different pelvic radiation field sizes were used for adjuvant post-operative RT in node-negative patients during this period: standard whole pelvic fields …
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Therapie breitbasiger Adenome und der pT1-low-risk-Karzinome des Rektums
Hintergrund:Das Rektumkarzinom gehört zu den häufigsten maligen Tumoren der westlichen Industrienationen. Bei steigender Inzidenz ist durch intensivierte Vorsorgemaßnahmen mit einer überproportionalen Zunahme früher Tumorstadien namentlich Adenomen, carcinoma in situ und den so genannten …