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Sometimes cancer cannot be cured with any type of treatment. At this point, palliative surgery may be performed.
Palliative surgery is not intended to cure the person or even prolong life. Palliative surgery is done to improve the quality of a person's life and help the patient live as comfortably as possible. Some of the uncomfortable symptoms that may be eased or relieved by this kind of surgery are: - pain
- the inability to move or to function as usual and
- removing an obstruction that blocks a necessary body function (such as in the bowel or bladder)
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