The blood is often chicken blood, or some other kind of blood. The tumors are not tumors, but chicken livers, or blood-soaked cotton, or something else. Any magician can hide these things until he pretends to remove them from the patient's body. Psychic surgeons are the scum of the earth. I understand that chemotherapy is hell.
Cancer still brings up the image of certain death.
Well, in many cases, it is not certain death. Cancer treatment now often brings many years, decades, of health and productive life. I received email saying that psychic surgery is not the bloody mess that is described above. It is a matter of style. The above article is fairly harsh, with good reason.