surgical debulking; cytoreductive surgery
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Indications
- surgery to make subsequent chemotherapy &/or radiation therapy more effective (ovarian cancer, brain neoplasm ...)[1]
Procedure
- partially removal of malignant neoplasm without curative intent
More general terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Silberman AW Surgical debulking of tumors. Surg Gynecol Obstet. 1982 Oct;155(4):577-85. PMID: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6750827