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#358 Oncologic Emergencies with Dr. Aditi Singh

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

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What Is the Oncologic Status of a Cancer Patient?

NOMS stands for neurologic, oncologic, mechanical and systemic status. If the spine is unstable, they might have to rush the patient into surgery anyway. The effect of like a chord compression would be so severe to someone's like quality of life that sometimes the person who for a different type of surgery you may not think of as a surgical candidate, we might be more aggressive because it'll have such an impact.

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