radical surgery


radical surgery

Surgery consisting of major excision or restructuring of a body region; RS is most often used aggressive or advanced cancer Examples 'Heroic' operations–eg, forequarter amputation, hindquarter amputation, hemipelvectomy, 'Commando' operation–radical neck. See Heroic surgery. Cf Palliative surgery.

radical surgery

Surgery to remove a large amount of damaged or neoplastic tissue and/or adjoining areas of lymphatic drainage to obtain a complete cure. This is in contrast to conservative surgery. See also: surgery

radical surgery

Extensive and often mutilating surgery designed to remove all the diseased tissue, usually cancerous. From the Latin radix, a root.