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What is a stage where pancreatic or liver cancer can be diagnosed early enough to be treated?

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In situ: For any cancer , earliest stage is the formation of cancer cells with out invasion to adjacent membrane , which is rarely detected in those two cancers.

Dr Pappas and another doctor agreed

Answered 4/5/2018

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