radical surgery
Description
A surgical procedure to remove an organ affected by disease along with all nearby tissue that could contain disease.
Radical surgeries to treat cancer usually involve removing a tumour along with surrounding tissues and structures (such as lymph nodes) that may contain cancer.
Also called radical dissection.
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