Amita Raj
Abney
6th Period
September 15th, 2010
Annotated Bibliography #1
Bakalar, Nicholas. "Report Suggests Changing Kidney Tumor Treatment." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia. 19 Sept. 2006. Web. 14 Sept. 2010. <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/health/19kidn.html?_r=1>.
New research has shown that a nephrectomy—the removal of the entire kidney, does not improve chances of survival. It is more likely for the patient to develop abrasions (renal cortical tumors) that can become malignant. Partial nephrectomies are harder to perform, and doctors have expressed that there would be less complications with a more major operation, and patients with two working kidneys would not have kidney problems after the surgery. Those who had small tumors already had a history of kidney disease, which makes the patient more at risk after undergoing such an operation. This article was surprising to read, because I had previously thought that the smaller and less radical a surgical procedure would be, the better it is for the patient. However, I learned that sometimes drastic measures prove to be less complicated. A lot of the medical terminology used in this article was familiar to me, after listening to my mentor talk about ‘creatinine’ and other such nephrology- related terms.
Original article can be read here.
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