Why can’t you just cut off cancer cells?

Question

I know there’s a reason, but I don’t know what it is.

In: Biology

Answer 1

There are two properties of a “better” cancer to get:

1. It is in a non life-sustaining organ
2. It can be delayed early (at stage 1)

My mum passed away for ovarian cancer & my wife has it (twice so far).

Ovarian fulfills the first criterium, but fails on the 2nd sir it usual presents symptoms similar to IBS etc.

And that’s the problem, when it has gone past stage 1, you can cut out the ovaries, but the cover has already did beyond into the abdominable space at least and you can’t cut that out. The cells will always be there and all you can do is suppress them through chemo but wait for the inevitable recurrence.