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When your treatment team are planning the best treatment for you, surgery may be one of the options that is considered. This means having one or more operations. This will depend on the type of cancer you have, and the information that the team have from your tests and investigations.
This section gives you general information about types of surgery for cancer. There is more detailed information about surgery for each cancer in the cancer types section of the website.
