Cancer myth or not

Here's a quote from
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=8905102

"NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - When US adults were polled about certain
erroneous cancer 'myths', the most widely believed misconception was
that surgical removal of a cancer can cause it to spread throughout the
body."

If you cut into a bunch of cancerous cells when removing a tumor, which
is unavoidable sometimes because of a hard to detect "halo" of them
around some tumors, which I just read about, don't you think there's a
possibility of some being released into the bloodstream?

Look at the Google results for "tumor seeding during surgery" at
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rls=GGLG%2CGGLG%3A2005-21%2CGGLG%3Aen&biw=995&q=%22tumor+seeding+during+surgery%22
.. I'm not a medical expert, and I don't want to make it sound like a
cancerous tumor shouldn't be removed when a doctor says it should, but
those Google results sure make it sound like removing a tumor could
accidentally spread cancer in some cases.

Maybe the survey should have asked if people think an attempt at
surgical removal of cancer is likely to cause the cancer to spread,
creating a more dangerous health risk.

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