The rise of skin cancer is directly linked to exposure to the sun without protection. In fact, is already the type most common malignancy, affecting in some countries like USA or Australia to one in three individuals. However, dermatologists have known how to react to this and in recent years have made great achievements in the daily fight against cancer. This is the case of a special type of dermatologic surgery: Mohs micrographic surgery, which gets a number of cures 99% of treated cases. Although very popular in the U.S. and has over 20 years practicing in Spain, is still done here in a minority. (more…)
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Micrographic surgery increases the success of healing of skin cancer
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Introduction to Palliative Surgery
Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Cancer is a disease that is developing in society with increasing frequency, one of the main causes is the lifestyle of people, many times surgery is one of the most used techniques to cure this disease, but there are several types of surgeries that are enhanced in patients with cancer.
Here we discuss opportunities that palliative surgery is one of the most commonly used as a method of cancer prevention, but there are others such as prophylactic surgery, diagnostic surgery, surgery of stratification, curative surgery among the most prominent.
Palliative surgery is applied in some situations where the patient has advanced disease, the purpose of this surgery is to alleviate the cancer but not cure the disease in its entirety.
Some of the effects that can result from cancer, are pain, obstruction of the patient’s motor function, disability, surgery in this case seeks to alleviate these symptoms, to give a better quality of life for the patient, is also used as a support tool when performing chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
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