heroic therapy

Medical history See Heroic medicine
Mainstream medicine Aggressive treatment of a dread disease regarded by a patient’s caregivers as incurable with standard therapies and usual and prudent doses of potentially toxic drugs
Surgery See Heroic surgery

heroic therapy

Mainstream medicine Aggressive treatment of a dread disease regarded by a Pt's care-givers as incurable with standard therapies at usual and prudent doses of potentially toxic drugs; Cf Heroic surgery.