To live to see their children grow up, say some. Others say, when warned that death is a possible outcome of major surgery, life this way isn t worth living.
Researchers are accustomed to the study of survivorship in evaluating treatments for malignancy.
Death should be one of the most accurate means of follow-up available. We are assembling data for a pilot study involving men. Plans are to prepare a grant proposal to obtain funding for a study of the IBSR female population if the male search provides sufficient data for comparisons. The number of patients available from a single surgeon is often too small. The cooperation of IBSR surgeons and their data entry people makes such a study possible.