Soo normally when cancer has already spread to another part of the body, the surgeon won’t go in and remove the new tumor at the new location. Why?? Why do doctors only remove the primary tumor. I’m just thinking it would buy more time to remove any second tumors so the cancer would have to establish new ones to keep growing
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ELI5: Removing a tumor can be like picking up an ice cube you dropped on the floor. Trying to remove cancer that has spread is like trying to pick up that same ice cube after it’s been sitting on the floor melting for 20 minutes.
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