Like if you detect it early enough, I know you can remove it. But what is the point that it can’t just be removed, and why?
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They often do. But remember cancer isn’t some foreign infection growing inside of you. It is you. It’s cells refusing to die when they ought. If you have brain cancer, cutting it out means cutting out part of your brain.
> But what is the point that it can’t just be removed, and why?
Once it starts spreading throughout the body (metastasize), then there can simply be too much to cut out. And there’s a bunch of different types of cancer just as there are different types of cells. Some tumors aren’t cancerous and don’t spread. We typically just leave those alone, they’re not really harming anything. Skin cancers can be easy to cut out and obvious and lumpy and discolored. Others are more… goopy and are spread throughout the body. Leukemia and lymphoma don’t have a single lumpy mass to remove.
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