NCUK Virtual Patient Handbook

The focus is on supporting you through your treatment, before and aft choose not to proceed or continue with proposed care. The ESC team can talk to you about what is important to you - when d symptoms and to talk about how you feel you are coping (physically, m the future. Many NHS hospitals and trusts now have ESC teams as well as Acute whom work together with your cancer team to provide best care for yo Surgical Approaches In planning treatment, surgery is usually the first option considered as disease). However, surgery also has a role to play in disease that may have spr There are several aims and types of surgery – all of which will depend you are, the risks and benefits of surgery to you and your informed co

1. Remove all visible disease

If you have a single tumour, with no evidence of secondary disease (n then surgery offers a potentially curative treatment. The decision on the type and regularity of follow up will be based upon removed under a microscope). Expert opinion is essential to assess risk of recurrence: not everyone

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