Surgery

Question 1

How can surgery contribute to cancer patients

Answer 1

Establish diagnosis
Establish stage
Relief of acute symptoms
Pain relief
Plastic Surgery

Question 2

Why is a diagnosis important before treatment

Answer 2

Imaging may be required
Procedure may need LA GA

Question 3

How can you sense the staging of a disease

Answer 3

Liver Biopsy
Organ and nodal removing

Question 4

How can surgery achieve curative treatment

Answer 4

Removal of tumour
Example: T1 bladder cancer

Question 5

How can surgery achieve palliative treatment

Answer 5

Bypass
Spinal cord decompression
Pining and plating fractures

Question 6

How can surgery achieve pain relief

Answer 6

Nerve block injection to numb pain signals

Question 7

How can plastic surgery help?

Answer 7

Body imagine help if a mastectomy is performed
Skin graft
Making a new bladder

Question 8

What are the principles of cancer surgery

Answer 8

First operation has more chance of success
Staging should always be before surgery
Margin of tissue should be removed too

Question 9

What are the advantages of surgery

Answer 9

Only treatment needed
Can be radical or palliative
Can give faster results
Treatment time is quick

Question 10

Disadvantage of surgery

Answer 10

Scar
May need GA
Nah need permanent ostomy which can ruin body image
May need long recovery which is cost

Question 11

Characteristics of cancers treaters with surgery

Answer 11

Often early stage dieases
Tumours are easily remove anke
Radio resistant