I know there’s a reason, but I don’t know what it is.
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I am a blood cancer survivor. There is no way to “cut off” cancerous cells there. All the main blood cancers (lymphomas, leukemias and myelomas) have to be treated systemically. Sometimes there may be surgical reduction of a lymph node or to debulk lymphatic masses, but that is either for biopsy or to alleviate symptoms. It’s never curative with a blood cancer. Also, people are lumping all sorts of drug therapies into a generic “chemo” category. But there are many targeted therapies that do not randomly attack fast-growth cells like the ‘usual’ chemotherapy does. Immunotherapies like CAR-T, Rituxan, etc., are highly targeted and go after very specific cells.
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