Coley was fascinated by a smattering of curious cancer stories referenced in the medical literature of the era: Patients riddled with inoperable tumors suddenly found themselves cancer - free after contracting erysipelas, another potentially fatal ailment at the time, caused by Streptococcus bacteria and marked by fever and hardened, painful rashes. (discovermagazine.com)
Unfortunately, Moses was subsequently diagnosed with a severe and inoperable tumor on his spinal cord and passed away two years later. (onegreenplanet.org)
Surgery is generally used as an emergency, palliative process for debulking (removal of excess bulk of tissue from a lesion), inoperable tumors in dogs with distal urinary tract obstruction. (wearethecure.org)