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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I do research on curing cancer.
1) Cancer is a broad term for many different diseases. In what organ cancer develops and what type it is matter a lot.
2) In most cases, we *can* remove it completely as soon as it is detected. Today we have good treatment outcome for most cancers.
3) The difficult cases usually means that the cancer has spread. The cancer cells from the original tumor has spread into the bloodstream and settled all over the body. Now the cancer is no longer concentrated into a small volume, but spread all over (metastases). You can attempt to treat this, but the thing is, this is symptomatic of metastatic activity, implying that clonogenic cancer cells are everywhere and abundant. For every 1 tumor you manage to fight, 2 more will pop up within months. And we have no idea where these tumors will pop up. This is a difficult battle and usually ends with death of the patient.
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