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- adjective medicine Unable to be removed through
surgery .
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Under his leadership, the program's surgeons were able to aggressively resect and cure up to a third of patients who had been identified as unresectable by other institutions.
Media Newswire 2009
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Under his leadership, the program's surgeons were able to aggressively resect and cure up to a third of patients who had been identified as unresectable by other institutions.
Media Newswire 2009
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At diagnosis, most patients with NSCLC present with advanced, inoperable (also called unresectable) disease, which is associated with poor prognosis
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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At diagnosis, most patients with NSCLC present with advanced, inoperable (also called unresectable) disease, which is associated with poor prognosis
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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Under his leadership, the program's surgeons were able to aggressively resect and cure up to a third of patients who had been identified as unresectable by other institutions.
Media Newswire 2009
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At diagnosis, most patients with NSCLC present with advanced, inoperable (also called unresectable) disease, which is associated with poor prognosis
THE MEDICAL NEWS 2009
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At diagnosis, most patients with NSCLC present with advanced, inoperable (also called unresectable) disease, which is associated with poor prognosis8
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Pfizer shares are trading to the downside Monday, despite news that the Food and Drug Administration approved its cancer drug Sutent to treat progressive, well-differentiated pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors in patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic disease.
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For Sutent, the panel voted 8-2 in favor of a similar question for the use of Sutent in patients with "unresectable" pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, or those that can't be removed by surgery.
Two Drugs for Cancer Get Boost Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2011
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Dr Steven A. Curley, who pioneered the clinical studies that led to FDA approval of radiofrequency ablation to treat unresectable primary and metastatic hepatobiliary malignancies, referred to the method as “one of the most exciting developments in years.”
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