Meanings of operable disease in anglès

Results:: Neoadjuvant chemo-radiation followed by surgery remains standard of care for operable disease.

The effect of initial chemotherapy on advanced, operable disease will have to be assessed by suitable controlled trials.

Although surgery is the best curative approach for resectable NSCLC, long-term survival for patients with operable disease remains poor.

Because of new treatments and new understandings of breast cancer, however, recommendations published in 2006 regarding neoadjuvant treatment for operable disease required updating.

There is a suggestion that younger patients with operable disease have longer survival, but this would require a larger study to confirm it.