If you have cancer in a certain organ (like liver cancer) why can’t you just remove the infected organ and be cancerfree again?
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You can, if it’s caught early enough, especially if the cancer is localized only to that organ. For example, thyroid cancer and melanoma (a type of skin cancer) can be incredibly deadly, but if caught early, you can simply remove the cancerous mole, or the thyroid, and you’re cured. The complications come when the cancer (uncontrolled replication of cells) spreads to other parts of the body (brain, blood, lymph nodes, other organs, etc.).
Also, just removing organs isn’t that easy. You can’t just remove a whole organ and be scotch free, in most cases. You need a liver (or at least part of it), you need a stomach, brain, esophagus, cervix, etc. You can live without breasts, uterus, prostate, thyroid, but there’s many you just can’t.
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