Doctors typically use an electric needle that destroys the residual tumor and controls bleeding.

By response I mean how much residual tumor is left at the time of surgery after "good" chemotherapy.

I suspect it can be removed without any residual tumor left behind.

No residual tumor apparent at or beyond the margins of excision.

Surgery followed by radiation therapy to known or suspected residual tumor.

He or she examines the slide for residual tumors, and marks the location of the tumor on the pathology report.

Unfortunately, the patient died several weeks afterwards from a residual tumor.

Some patients with initially unresected tumors may undergo second-look surgery to remove residual tumor.

In such circumstances, chemotherapy should be initiated after diagnostic biopsy, with the intent to try to remove residual tumor at a later date.

Often surgical removal of the residual primary tumor is performed after neoadjuvant chemotherapy.