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Why No Surgery for MBC?

Breast Cancer | Last Active: Jun 30, 2023 | Replies (10)

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@auntieoakley

Hello @pbnew i don’t k ow about could sand should but this was the answer I received when I asked.
Because it isn’t curative it won’t make a difference in what the cancer does, his exact words were “it will trowel it around a bit, but you will still have the same cancer”.
I had a hard time accepting it, but it did make sense. I also read in a book called dance with the devil (I think, I read a lot of books during that time), that cancer tumors compete with each other, and when you take out the big ones it allows the smaller ones to grow faster, therefore better to treat them all at the same time with systemic therapy.
How are you feeling with all of this?

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Thanks for looking into it. It still doesn’t make sense to me. So it’s ok if the tumors in the breast are still active after the metastasis has been cleared? I’m not aware of any treatment that is curative.