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Can anxiety mimic symptoms of cancers?
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Sometimes: Anxiety is sometimes associated with malignancy. This is typified by many patients with pancreatic cancer who complain of such symptoms and sent for psychiatric evaluation only to find they have metastatic pancreatic cancer.
Answered 8/1/2014
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