Cancer treatments - surgery
Usually consists of radical surgery, palliative surgery, exploratory surgery.
(1) radical surgery
Because malignant tumors grow quickly, the surface is not coated, it and weeks to sleep normal tissue there is no obvious boundaries, local infiltration powerful, and through lymphatic metastasis. Therefore, surgery should a range of tumor and surrounding normal tissue, and may be subject to violations of the complete removal of lymph nodes. This procedure is suitable for a more limited range of tumors, there is no distant metastasis, patients with a good physique.
(2) palliative surgery
Broader tumor, there transfer radical surgery can not be terminally ill, in order to relieve pain, maintain nutrition and prolong life, you can just make some removal of part of the tumor or surgery to alleviate the symptoms, such as PEG and so on.
(3) exploratory surgery
The internal organs of the deep tumor, and sometimes through a variety of inspection can not determine its nature, the need for thoracotomy, laparotomy or craniotomy check the form of lump meat, with the difference of their nature or cut a small piece of living tissue to take quick frozen section examination, confirm the diagnosis before deciding on surgery and treatment programs for exploratory surgery.