When I watch TV I often hear the doctors (actors) assure patients and their family that they got “all of the cancer” during removal surgeries.

In my mind… I always thought that cancer was a lump of cells… multiplying uncontrolled… and at some point along its margins, it borders normal tissue.

How can you possibly cut perfectly between normal tissue and cancerous tissue?

  • wsf@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Many TV writers are ignorant dorks. Cancer is never “cured,” it’s “in remission.” Cells at the margin that have been excised are biopsied, which can allow doctors to say “the margins are clear.” That’s what my doctor said to me, looking a little wary. “Why the long face?” I asked. “I don’t trust squamous cells,” he replied.

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    1 year ago

    Cancer is never cured. Testing goes on your in remission. If your lucky it won’t come back or go bad again.