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My brother has been diagnosed with metastatic renal cell carcinoma stage 4. am i at risk of this disease . is this cancer rare?
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Maybe: Discuss this with your brother and his oncologist. There are rare familial renal cancer syndromes.
Answered 4/22/2014
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