Can a surgeon successfully remove a live cancerous tumor without ...
Can a surgeon successfully remove a live cancerous tumor without it spreading?
Posted by YokelRidesAgain
This is a widespread misconception that is particularly prevalent among some ethnic groups.
The concept probably came from the days before advanced imaging when often the only way to tell how advanced a cancer was to cut the patient open with a knife and see. Unfortunately, in many cases the cancer had already advanced far enough that surgical resection (removal) was impossible. So the surgeon would come out and say ?I?m sorry, but the cancer has spread and there is nothing we can do?. You can see how families could intrepret that as meaning that the surgery caused the cancer to spread, when in reality the tendency to spread locally or to other parts of the body (metastasis) is a characteristic of cancer and not caused by the surgery at all.
All cancers that are surgically removed are live; if they were dead there would be no reason to remove them. For many cancers, surgical removal is the only treatment that has any hope of producing a cure.
I should point out that there are rare situations in which cancer can actually be spread by inappropriate surgical technique, but this does not occur when the surgery is planned and executed properly.
My cousin has signet cell breast cancer. It?s a rare and aggressive form and she?s been on chemo since December. The tumor has shrunk but, after checking it, the surgeon said it?s still live. She?s having a mastectomy tomorrow morning and the surgeon thinks he can get all the cancer out without spreading it. All I?ve heard is ?Don?t remove a live tumor because it?ll spread.? Is it possible to remove a live tumor in the breast and lymph nodes without spreading it? I appreciate your help! Thank you!
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