Transurethral surgery is the primary treatment for patients with superficial bladder cancer. Either electrical or laser thermal destruction is used most often but there is no proven therapeutic benefit for one method over the other. Treatment failure is usually a consequence of new tumor occurrence
Surgical management of stages 0,1, and IIA breast cancer
โ Scribed by David P. Winchester; Gerald P. Murphy; Harold E. Bowman; Benjamin F. Byrd; Charles Cox; Edwin R. Fisher; Arthur I. Holleb; David W. Kinne; Rose Kushner; A. Hamblin Letton; Norman L. Sadowsky; Edward F. Scanlon
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 235 KB
- Volume
- 65
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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