Answer to your eagar question! The medicine and technology in health has become so modern these days, you do not hear any country from dying from removing the tumor. Most of the world now lives without the tumor (appendix might be a better analogy), so removing the tumor will kill us might have been true in 18th-19th and even 20th centuary world, but NOT in 21st centuary. Lets remove the appendix before it blows up and poisons our whole body.