Blood Salvage
"Blood Salvage in Cancer Surgery."
Published in Blood Weekly, November 30th, 1998
According to an abstract submitted by the author to the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists, held October 18-20, 1998, in Orlando, Florida, "Blood salvage is contraindicated in cancer surgery because of the risk of tumor cell dissemination and the recent demonstration of viable, invasive and tumorigenic tumor cells in the blood shed during cancer surgery. We have investigated the capacity of blood irradiation to eliminate the contaminating tumor cells, and have tested the quality of this salvaged and irradiated blood. We report on our three year experience in intraoperative blood salvage with blood irradiation (IBSBI) in cancer surgery. The radiosensitivity of...
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Source: Blood Weekly (1998-11-30)
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