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How paraganglioma develop in early stage of child,if a family have no one of this kind of tumor?
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Dumb luck: Like most other childhood tumors, these strike at random. There is a background rate of genetic mutation and getting one of these is as far as we can tell a random event.
Answered 7/17/2014
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