Why are cancers considered inoperable if they are metastatic?

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I know a couple of surgeons refused to operate on pancreatic cancer without PET results when the cancer was shrunk to 1-2 centimeters. Even if there are metastatic sites and the metastasized cells grow, the original cancer would still be removed, we’d have fewer cancer cells overall. What is the reason that doctors don’t do it?

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If you have a stray horse loose in your mansion, you can go in and drag it out, problem solved.

If you have a million fleas loose in your mansion… that’s not gonna work.

Even if there’s great clumps of them in one room, all you’re going to do is cause loads of damage, without meaningfully reducing the problem.

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