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- major traumas

- Some strokes (if you reach hospital in time)

- some heart attacks (if you reach hospital in time)

- 3rd degree heart block (by way of a pacemaker)

- serious arthritis of the knees, hips and shoulders (by way of replacement joints)

- 80% cure rate of childhood leukaemia, 20-30% cure rate of adult leukaemia

- some forms of childhood brain tumours

- a high percentage of childhood and young adult myelodysplastic syndromes

- pretty much every BCC and almost all SCCs that reach a doctor before they have invaded the whole patient

- early melanoma

- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, through either a TURP or what will become the definitive therapy, interventional radiology ablation

- Wolf-Parkinson-white syndrome and other cardiac arrytjmias that consist of accessory pathways

- patent foramen ovale

- Cervical cancer if discovered early through Pap smear

- deep vein thrombosis and it's sequelae, pulmonary embolism

- Cataracts

- about 100 other surgical problems that will be completely cured through surgery

parent robbiep 9 years ago

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