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02-08-2011, 04:27 PM
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Re: Facial, Eye & Bone Removal Operation
Some surgeons love to do this stuff so that they can be the ground breakers. There's even a name for it: heroic surgery. After the op, the surgeon will explain, "you mother has now gained a year with a *relatively* good quality of life" + dont forget the $$$ for radical surgery like that.  |
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02-08-2011, 04:43 PM
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Re: Facial, Eye & Bone Removal Operation
Looking at the way he is highlighting a particular area of the skull, I'd say that hole was an earlier attempt to remove the sarcoma, along with chemo and maybe radiation. The original surgery was not radical enough, there was widespread recurrence, and here you have results. |
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02-09-2011, 10:23 PM
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Re: Facial, Eye & Bone Removal Operation
Yeah, I've seen something similar- it's a cancerous tumor growing in his palate (roof of his mouth) with metastisis to his orbit / eye socket. They did what's called an enucleation of his right eye- nice way of saying they cut out his eye and the attached bone around it. They have to do this when the cancer has spread... When they operate, they not only take out the cancerous tissue, but all of the surrounding tissue until they get to "clean" tissue that shows no sign of cancer!
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