Sentence examples for reject surgery from inspiring English sources

"A lot of people actually believe cancer spreads by contact with air," Dr. Margolis said, "and some will reject surgery they really need".

Even more worrisome, Dr. Margolis said, was that 19percentt of African-Americans cited the belief as a reason to reject surgery, and 14percentt said a doctor could not convince them otherwise.

Some doubts as to the safety of the operation, as well as the twins' apparent consideration for each other's comfort and remarkable adaptation to their condition, led them to reject surgery.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame musician has been plagued by hip problems for years, but has rejected surgery on account of his Jehovah's Witness faith.

Reasons for rejecting surgery were fear (37 %), preferred medical treatment (27 %) and cost (15 %).

The latter might provide an insight into the prognosis of animals where owners rejected surgery or other treatment options.

Eight patients (4.2 %) were ineligible: in the TME group, distant metastasis was found in 1 patient during surgery; in the CCRT + TME group, distant metastasis was found in 3 patients during surgery, and 4 rejected surgery after preoperative CCRT.

= 0.29, DF = 1, P = 0.59; Intervention (30) vs Control (10); χ2 = 2.22, DF = 1, P = 0.26 Two cohorts were formed from the study sample: 1) subjects who agreed and underwent CEA were the Intervention Cohort; 2) subjects who despite the diagnosis rejected surgery formed the Control Cohort.

Most of these patients had thoracic progression, including nodal enlargement and/or multiple pulmonary nodes or masses, or extrathoracic metastases, including abdominal or intracranial metastases, and due to ethical reasons or because the patients rejected surgery, no histological confirmation was requested.

American doctors are successfully persuading increasing numbers of men with low-risk prostate cancer to reject immediate surgery and radiation in favor of surveillance, a trend that is sparing men's sexual health without increasing their risk of death.

Patients either had disease for which radical surgery was contraindicated or had rejected radical surgery.