The imaging technique of DTI allows neurosurgeons to visualize important pathways in the brain. This allows them to better adapt brain tumor surgeries and preserve language, visual function, and motor function while removing cancerous tissue.
Despite the low risk of lymphedema after sentinel lymph node biopsy, most women worry about this complication and practice risk-reducing behaviors to avoid it.
A nationwide study on patient outcomes after cancer surgeries found that while infections during hospital stays increased during a 10-year period, the death rate from those infections declined.
New study results show that partial kidney removal and energy-based techniques to destroy tumors are increasingly used to manage kidney disease. However, the patients most in need of kidney-sparing surgery are surprisingly still more likely to undergo total nephrectomy.
A new reconstruction technique uses cartilage from behind the ear and skin from the shoulder to repair the nose in one step after skin cancer.
Among patients undergoing surgery for a brain tumor, low T3 (triiodothyronine) syndrome has been found to be predictive of unfavorable clinical outcomes and depressive symptoms.
Low levels of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine (T3) predict unfavorable outcomes after neurosurgery for the treatment of brain tumors.
Surgery offers a better survival benefit for men with localized prostate cancer, according to a large observational study.
Recently, researchers analyzed metastatic gastric cancer cases from the SEER database to help determine which treatment options offer the best survival possibilities.
Persons with metastatic gastric cancer who had both surgery and radiation lived longer than patients who underwent one or neither treatment.
