why can’t cancer just be removed as soon as its detected?

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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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Two problems:
– sometimes it’s detectable in a place where surgery isn’t feasible. Ie if it’s in some vital organ.
– surgery only gets the cancer they’ve detected. Depending how long it’s been there, there’s a chance it has spread somewhere else already but hasn’t grown big enough there to be detectable yet.

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