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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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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Cancers become bad news once they metastasize, or spread, to the rest of the body. At this point, they can be in many different places and be microscopic in size that removing them is not feasible.

Cancers that have not spread can be cut out.

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