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by baggachipz 772 days ago
(4) is what people never understand. Other types of cancer can usually be cut out, as long as it hasn't spread to other organs. Gliomas are always present once they start, and it's a matter of keeping its spread suppressed for as long as possible.
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If you have cancer in the fingertip, they can cut the whole hand to be safe. With the brain each milimiter is very important. (IINAMD. They usually cut more carefuly.)

Also, some cancers are isolated from the rest of the body and some are interwinded with the sorrounding tissue. I'm not sure in which type glioblastoma ia is.

Immunotherapy isn't surgery.

We should probably reason about it like it is though.