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Is cancer different in different parts of the body?
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Yes, each site isdif: Cancer can arise in every organ of the body, so it is more than one hundred different diseases lumped together because they share one common feature...uncontrolled growth often leading to distant metastases. Treatments vary for each site, so do the treatment outcomes.
Answered 4/5/2015
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