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Old 02-02-2011, 11:30 PM   #20
Lani
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Re: resection of bc mets to liver prolongs survival in ER+ chemosensitive patients

Deena --as I understand it the liver has the consistency of tomato aspic and, as you can guess it us hard to sew tomato aspic to tomato aspic and may be hard to stop bleeding as well.

So it may not be a walk in the park, but it is done all the time and has a good track record according to the paper I posted.

Surgery is not surgery for any tumor. Some tumors are more likely to be eradicated by cutting them out than others. Some tumors bleed more than others. Some may recruit more angiogenic factors which might wake up dormant cancer stem cells in the bone marrow than others. Some are more amenable to be removed completely without spreading other cells...

If cancer is anything,...it is complicated!!!
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