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Actually, if you think about it, the biopsy would probably be a bigger risk than the surgery, b/c with surgery they will be taking great pains to cut around it, but with a biopsy, they are plowing the big mama needle right down thru the tumor.
I'm not a doctor but I always believed surgery makes it worse in a lot of cases and ruins the patients quality of life. I wish they would look more into vitamins than drugs or surgery.
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If surgery is possible, the tumor is operable, surgery many times offers a CURE......why would anyone pass up a chance at a cure???
Your "belief" is flawed.....
There is no chance of curing cancer with vitamins....none....
If someone is given the diagnosis of "cancer", whatever the type, the best news they can hear after that diagnosis is "its localized, has not metastasized, lets set you up for surgery"
Actually, if you think about it, the biopsy would probably be a bigger risk than the surgery, b/c with surgery they will be taking great pains to cut around it, but with a biopsy, they are plowing the big mama needle right down thru the tumor.
It is, why do you think doctors usually rush the patient to have surgery after the biopsy?
It is, why do you think doctors usually rush the patient to have surgery after the biopsy?
I think you missed the point. When a scalpel or biopsy needle is inserted into a tumor, as it is drawn out, cancer cells are spread outside of the tumor. Surgery can take out the tumor, but what happens to the cancer cells that have been spread out into areas with no cancer? One thing they can do is they can attach to the exit pathway or enter the bloodstream and attach elsewhere in the body and a new tumor can begin to grow.
"Some people worry that having surgery (or even a biopsy) for cancer will spread the disease. This seldom happens. Surgeons use special methods and take many steps to prevent cancer cells from spreading. For example, if they must remove tissue from more than one area, they use different tools for each one. This approach helps reduce the chance that cancer cells will spread to healthy tissue.
I think you missed the point. When a scalpel or biopsy needle is inserted into a tumor, as it is drawn out, cancer cells are spread outside of the tumor. Surgery can take out the tumor, but what happens to the cancer cells that have been spread out into areas with no cancer? One thing they can do is they can attach to the exit pathway or enter the bloodstream and attach elsewhere in the body and a new tumor can begin to grow.
Surgery is rarely the only treatment most people get, chemo or radiation usually follow. And not all types of cancer spread equally fast, some cancers are "slow-growing", which might explain why Stepka wasn't rushed into surgery...
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