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Can you explain to me how cancer tests work?
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No single way: Cancer diagnosis generally requires removing part or all of the suspect lesion and having the tissue examined by a pathologist. Cancer is many different disease and had many different ways of diagnosing the disease. For screening for cancer, there is another set of tests. See this site for screening tests. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/screening.
Answered 12/18/2013
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