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

You can. It’s just often not the only form of treatment (was step 2/3 for me)

If you’re lucky, they get all of it (negative margins). A positive margin indicates they couldn’t get all of the cancer cells.

And they’re getting better and better at it. My surgery was in 2019, surgeon said 30 years ago, they would have just taken my leg. So I’m thankful for the improvement.