in rural areas are there any surgical oncologists?

Question

What is the scope of practice for a surgical oncologist?

Answer 1

Possibly: These highly specialised surgeons are often in major cities, but some may be close to rural communities. You could look at the american college of surgeons web site. There also is a the american college of oncologic surgeon. A google search might better answer that question.

Answer 2

Yes: Yes, there are. You can find surgical oncologists across the country via this website: www.Surgonc.Org.

Answer 3

Unlikely: Surgical oncologists require a source of patients and sophisticated hospital facilities to provide the resources for their work. Generally cities of 200,000 persons or more can do this. General surgeons do much of the surgical oncology in smaller towns and rural areas, referring the more complex cases to larger cities with such surgeons or medical schools.

Answer 4

Sympathectomy: Thoracic sympathectomy is the procedure to cut the "sympathetic nerve" fibers coming out of the spine at the level of t2-t3 (second and third thoracic vertebrae). The nerve fibers usually cross over the second, third, & fourth ribs near the spine. Some doctors are using an endoscope to do this procedure, which would leave almost no surgical scar. The same procedure stops excessive hand sweating.

Answer 5

Sympathectomy: Either surgerical sympathectomy or with a spinal stimulator can sometimes be used to cause vasodilation of the arteries.

Answer 6

Need more info...: Not sure what you are asking here...Generally speaking, surgical treatment is not conservative. Please provide more information...

Answer 7

Be more specific: If you want a real answer. You need to give us some idea about what your condition is and what you've already been told. That said, for many conditions, surgery is the "conservative" treatment option vs waiting and watching or medical (i.e., nonsurgical) treatment.

Answer 8

Possible: Depends on the surgery andcondition of the ms. Ms affets sensory and motor neurological symptoms and it may be resonable that if surgery is perform in an area the MS affects the tissue may not respond as well as othe areas not affected.But there may be additional causes for your poor response and may not always be attributted to the ms.

Answer 9

Really?: I am unaware of failures of medicines and surgical procedures needed for co-morbidities occurring with ms pts. Some ms pts can get worse on cipro, (ciprofloxacin) and a touted procedure to fix veins draining from the brain has been shown not to be of value to treat ms, but otherwise, the ms pt responds similarly to other people if medical or surgical treatment is required for other conditions.

Answer 10

Under research: This past year marks the first implantation of stem cells for ALS in the US in an FDA sanctioned trial efficacy is not yet known as the study is still accruing patients.

Answer 11

No.: Unfortunately, there is no surgical or medical cure for als.

Answer 12

Not at all: There is no cure known for ALS, and the sole surgery used would involve tracheostomy or a feeding tube both for supportive and palliative purposes.

Answer 13

Plastic surgery: There are not surgical procedures that would make a person's eyelids perfectly symmetrical (perfection doesn't exist in real life). However, plastic surgeons can make a smaller lids opening larger, make a double eyelid fold if there is a single fold, tighten a lower eyelid if the lid margin is drooping away from the eyeball, etc... Plastic surgery is an art, so results may differ among surgeons.

Answer 14

Oculoplastic surgery: Eyelid surgery is an art so depending on your surgeons ability many eyelid asymetries can be corrected. Usually these surgeries are performed under local anesthesia. Sometime the eyelid asymetry is due to a more serious underlying problem such as thyroid dysfuctions, in these cases the correction is more involving and orbital procedure might be needed. These cases need more extensive evaluation.

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