Assertion: pancreatic cancer's tumor | /r/HasProperty | removed
Facets:
value: surgically
type: MANNER
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
value: completely
type: DEGREE
value: successfully
type: MANNER
value: fully
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Medical imaging techniques, such as computed tomography (CT scan) and endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) are used both to confirm the diagnosis and to help decide whether the tumor can be surgically removed (its "resectability").
text: Although CT scans help, in practice it can be difficult to determine whether the tumor can be fully removed (its "resectability"), and it may only become apparent during surgery that it is not possible to successfully remove the tumor without damaging other vital tissues.
text: Rarely, locally advanced stage III tumors, which are typically considered unresectable (do not qualify for surgery), are characterized as “borderline” and may be removed if the patient has access to an experienced, highly trained surgeon.
text: All visible tumor was removed, but lab tests of the removed tissue show that some small areas of cancer were probably left behind.
text: All visible tumor was removed, but lab tests of the removed tissue show that some small areas of cancer were probably left behind.
text: If the cancer is only in the pancreas (or has spread just beyond it) and the surgeon believes the entire tumor can be removed, it is called resectable.
text: In stage IIA pancreatic cancer, the cancer has not spread and the tumor can be removed surgically.
text: Surgery is one of the main treatments for a pancreatic tumor, however not all types pancreatic tumors will be able to be removed.
text: Resectable: These tumors may be removed surgically.
text: If the cancer is detected early and the tumor is successfully removed, the five-year chance of survival goes up to 27 percent.
text: Benign tumors are generally not life threatening and can often be removed.
text: The overall five-year survival rate is about 10%, although this can rise as high as 20% to 35% if the tumor is removed completely and when cancer has not spread to lymph nodes.
text: However, even large tumors may be removed and a number of patients with tumors greater than 4-5 cm appear to have been cured by surgery.
text: By stage number, which describes the cancer’s size and location By surgical resection category, which is defined as whether the tumor can be surgically removed
text: Tumors in this category can be surgically removed.
text: Doctors use this category if they are unsure at diagnosis whether the tumor can be surgically removed.
text: Although a malignant tumor can sometimes be removed, it can potentially grow back.
text: If the tumor can be removed surgically.
text: Prior to surgery, to try to reduce the size of the pancreatic tumor that needs to be removed.
text: whether or not the tumor can be removed by surgery (tumors that can be removed surgically are called resectable)