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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it often works like that

but a few issues can occur

1- Cancer has the habit of spreading into other parts of the body, and when it does this its not immediatly clear, so surgucal removal might not do enough

2- the organ that is affected is critical and cant be surgically removed
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