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[Woof1]

Think They Meant Endoscopic,
Just in Case...


Siriraj carries out telescopic surgery first
Published: 13/01/2012 at 12:00 AM Newspaper section: News
In a first for Thailand in the region, Siriraj Hospital has successfully carried out telescopic surgery on a patient with cervical cancer, enabling her to go on to become pregnant.

The treatment was carried out last year on a 30-year-old female civil servant who was diagnosed with stage 1 cervical cancer.

A year after the surgery, she had suffered no recurrence of the cancer and was able to have a baby, according to the hospital.

The telescopic surgery technique has been available for about 10 years but it has only been used rarely because of a scarcity of suitable cases.

Less than 50 patients with cervical cancer have undergone telescopic surgery worldwide, said Perapong Inthasorn, a gynaecologist with cancer expertise.

Unlike stage 2 and 3 cervical cancer patients who need radiotherapy and chemotherapy and normally have to have their womb and pelvic lymph nodes removed, those diagnosed to be in the early stage of cervical cancer can undergo telescopic surgery instead.

The procedure enables surgeons to remove tumours and lymph nodes while keeping the ovary and womb intact for reproductive purposes, he said.

"Not only is the cancer survival rate as high as 90%, but patients can also go on to have children," he said.

Of cases treated with telescopic surgery, 70% could become pregnant after completing a one-year cancer monitoring period.

The telescopic surgery leaves only very tiny scars about 0.5mm in size. This means patients do not have to stay hospitalised for long periods as is the case with normal operations.

The surgery costs 50,000 baht, he said.

[rxpharm]

Yes woof1, The Nation carried the same story, but with the proper term, endoscopic.

[drhoneytongue]

The scars are closer to 5 cm in length, not 0.5 mm!

However, they must also keep a regular OR team on standby, in case something goes wrong, and they have to revert to open surgery.

A friend here did endoscopic surgery for abdominal problems - ulcers, cancer, etc., and had a reversion rate of around 0.1%, i.e. 1 in 1,000 cases need to be finished with the regular big hole in the abdomen. That's about as good as it gets...

[Woof1]

Point was about the word used in one newspaper (Endoscopic which is Correct) versus the Asstronomers of the other
Never mind, threat dead