Adjuvant chemotherapy after curative surgery.
Clinical trials of radiation therapy after curative surgery.
But curative surgery and medicine were very recent developments which had become possible only when the species learned how to rotate while remaining in one position.
Adjuvant chemotherapy refers to the use of chemotherapy after apparently curative surgery to improve the outcome.
In terms of prognosis after curative surgery, Duke's B colorectal cancer represents a therapeutic dilemma.
One situation is the addition of radiation therapy after potentially curative surgery.
Patients with distant metastases (who are not candidates for curative surgery) have a less than 3% 5YSR.
Only 10% of patients with a diagnosis for pancreatic cancer are able to have potentially curative surgery.
"Let us hope the answers come during curative surgery," Kursedd gave out as a parting shot, "and not at the post-mortem."
The concept of curative surgery would be a strange one indeed to members of that race.