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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Also, paradoxically, a tumor can secrete chemicals into the blood that suppress the growth of its offspring tumors in the rest of the body.
If you take out that main tumor, all the others, which may be in more dire locations, will all start to grow.
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