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Surgery
Surgery is the oldest and still most widely used
treatment for cancer patients with
solid tumours, as opposed to leukemia, cancer of the blood.
Removing the
primary tumour sometimes makes
even widespread cancer treatable by
chemotherapy. Surgery is pivotal in the early stages of
disease, when a great percentage of patients can be
successfully treated. Not all tumours are operable.
Whether or not a tumour is operable depends on the
size and location of the tumour, i.e., performing
surgery on a child with a malignant brain tumour can
be problematic because the child’s brain is still
growing and the chances of causing permanent damage
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