Being told you have cancer is frightening and a common reaction is to want the cancer excised as quickly as possible. Indeed, this is the way most solid tumors are treated. Cancers of the blood like leukemia or lymphoma are different and can’t be “cut out.” But for solid tumors like tumors of the breast, large intestine, or prostate gland . . .
This article is about something called venous thromboembolism or VTE. To start with and to help you, the reader, better understand what I'm talking about and why it's important, let's start with a story that at first glance has nothing to do with surgery. All the major details of this story are true. The daughter of a nice lady from Georgia and the daughter's boyfriend leave on a two-week trip to Australia. . . .
