Sentence examples for more extensive surgery from inspiring English sources

However, due to relatively high recurrence rates, more extensive surgery is indicated for high-risk GCTB with extraosseous extension, especially in the pelvic region (Van der Heijden et al. 2012).

Once again, more extensive surgery was no more effective than surgery that conserved the woman's breast.

That means he can withstand stronger doses of chemotherapy and more extensive surgery than an older patient could.

Patients referred for cardiac surgery are increasingly older, with a higher prevalence of significant comorbidities and undergoing more extensive surgery.

In this 1971 study, only women undergoing the more extensive surgery had their lymph nodes routinely removed.

Doctors who use the Acclarent procedure say it may be best suited for patients with milder problems and those reluctant to undergo more extensive surgery.

"We were hoping to shrink the tumors further to spare her a more extensive surgery," said Wakelee, so the team tried chemotherapy as part of a clinical trial.

By the time I found it the cancer had spread to my lymph nodes, which meant I needed more extensive surgery and more aggressive chemotherapy than if it had been discovered earlier.

In breast cancer surgery, the radioisotope is injected to find the lymph node nearest the tumor, so it can be biopsied for signs of cancer, to determine whether more extensive surgery is needed.

The cartilage damage was discovered during that procedure, and doctors immediately proceeded with the more extensive surgery.

Had I not had that mammogram, I would probably still be alive but only after having undergone much more extensive surgery plus radiation and chemotherapy, and would have to live with a much more altered body.