If you have cancer in a certain organ (like liver cancer) why can’t you just remove the infected organ and be cancerfree again?

Question

If you have cancer in a certain organ (like liver cancer) why can’t you just remove the infected organ and be cancerfree again?

In: Biology

Answer 1

You can…if a body can survive without it.

Take Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. It metastases (spread) three places, generally, the spinal fluid, the testes (in males) and the ovaries (in females).

Spinal fluid is treated with chemotherapy and the brain might get radiation. The testes and ovaries can be removed surgically because if the cancer remains there it can cause another cancer and spread from there