irresectable

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"Recent analyses show that ... patients with initially irresectable colorectal cancer [tumors that cannot be removed through surgery] who received downsizing chemotherapy had higher five and 10-year survival rates," said Huang Lin-chieh (黃麟傑) of the Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center's division of hematology and medical oncology.

Taipei Times 2008