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How can skin cancer kill you?
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Skin cancer: Certain skin cancer such as malignant melanoma ( less commonly squamous cell or basal cell skin cancer) has the potential to spread through the blood or lymph nodes to other organs ( metastasis ). These organs include the lymph nodes, brain, bone, etc.
Answered 8/1/2018
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