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Surgery? Radiation? Can I have an independent suggestion?
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This sounds like a real interesting technique. One of my wife’s best friends husband is a pathologist who worked in a hospital analyzing tissue. One of the things he did was analyze the tissue as the surgery was going on to make sure that the margins were clean. He did this with many different types of surgeries, and this was pretty standard.
It makes me wonder why prostate cancer surgeries don’t always get this treatment.
He was good to have around when I Was diagnosed with prostate cancer 15 years ago. He had me bring him the slides, and he reviewed them to tell me if they confirmed what they had diagnosed. He did agree with what they had told me.
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They did ‘frozen sections’ like this for decades - EVERY cancer surgery used it.
Hate to say ‘time is money’ but there it is…
The advent of more sophisticated radiation techniques and chemotherapy took on a ‘mop up’ approach to whatever the surgeon didn’t get…
Forty years ago a close female friend had aggressive adeno CA of the bowel. Her father, a doctor, told the surgeon ‘NO chemo or radiation, understand? You f***ing get it all!”
After tumor removal, they took all her intestines out of her body and hosed them off with sterile saline; her body cavity as well. No
Cells could be left behind. Multiple frozen sections were employed.
To date she has never had a recurrence or complication. THAT’s how it used to be done…
Phil