The phrase "active surgery" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to surgical procedures that are currently being performed or are in progress.
Example: "The patient is currently undergoing active surgery to address the medical issue."
Alternatives: "surgical procedure" or "ongoing surgery".
In addition to his active surgery practice, he also incorporated lifestyle, diet, supplementation, exercise, detoxification, and stress management into many of the therapies he would prescribe.
However, this criticism seems to miss the mark as the point that Moseley et al. make from their trial is that the active treatment was not better than placebo, therefore any observed effects were likely due to placebo rather than the active surgery.
PCSTs seemed able to distinguish between effective and ineffective surgical interventions, in that of the eight trials included in the review, six showed no difference between placebo and a range of surgical interventions, and two showed that active surgery was more effective than placebo.
Patients were evaluated at inclusion, 1 week before surgery; 4 weeks after surgery (before active or sham stimulation) and at the end of the first randomization period (weeks 12 and 17).
Because scientific studies have not established which treatments are best, patients with early prostate cancer are asked to choose between deferred treatment (watchful waiting or active surveillance); surgery (conventional, laparoscopic, or robot-assisted); and radiation (external beam, proton beam, or brachytherapy with implanted radioactive seeds, with or without hormone therapy).
Treatment and management plan (i.e. active surveillance, surgery, or radiation).
Exclusion criteria included advanced liver or renal dysfunction, coronary bypass surgery, cancer, active or chronic inflammatory or autoimmune diseases, acute infection, and hematological diseases.
In this analysis, we investigate the influence of social and geographical factors on the attainment of histological diagnosis and on receipt of any form of active treatment (surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy).
Effective treatment of early-stage localized disease involves active surveillance, surgery (radical prostatectomy) or radiation therapy; however, recurrent and/or metastatic disease is incurable and androgen deprivation therapy is the primary treatment modality [1], [2].
Lung cancer patients presenting to hospital without a suspicious CXR are less likely to have specialist care, histological confirmation of their cancer and have lower rates of active treatment (surgery, any radiotherapy or chemotherapy).
Therefore, in hospitals with an active urologic surgery, urgent diagnostic imaging is increasingly requested to assess suspected early complications following RALRP surgery.
