Cancer surgery is well over a thousand years old, and surgical techniques have evolved dramatically in the last few decades. Despite many advances in terms of technique and
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One of the most common forms of cancer surgery is called a lumpectomy, the removal of a tumor from the breast. Along with removing this “lump”, the surgeon
In our last Discoveries article, we introduced the idea that the way a cancer treatment kills or damages a tumor can result in a marshaling of the immune
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