Cancer expert to head HSU urology division
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- How old is too old for surgery … and who makes the decision?
Cancer expert to head HSU urology division
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Knight Cancer Institute recruits prominent doctor
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us Digg This Dr. Christopher Amling an regon native and nationally known expert in urologic cancer will head the Division of Urology in the regon Health & Science University Department of Surgery starting in March. He is the first recruit to the HSU Knight Cancer Institute funded in part by a $100 million gift by Nike Inc. co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny. Amling will succeed Dr. John Barry who led the Division of Urology and Renal Transplantation for nearly three decades.
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How old is too old for surgery … and who makes the decision?
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That led him to deVere White the UC Davis urologist who coincidentally had just concluded a research study with colleague Dr. Karim Chamie showing that otherwise healthy octogenarians can tolerate invasive surgery – radical cystectomy to be precise – to treat bladder cancer. The study published in August in the British Journal of Urology International showed as much as a 52-months-of-life benefit for many elderly who had surgery provided they did not die from an unrelated disease. However the overall survival rate for all octogenarian bladder cancer patients differed only slightly (18 months to 15 months) for those who had surgery compared to radiotherapy. “I think you could absolutely argue that putting anyone through the surgery and recovery for three months of extra life when you’re 80 years old is not worth it for the patient” deVere White says. “n the other hand if you look at the patients who had the surgery and got their lymph nodes (removed) and did not die of some other disease then you’re looking at over four years of extra life. That I think is worth it.
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