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Why would a doctor order a ct scan of your chest after seeing the adrenal glands were enlarged?
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Metastasis: Occasionally cancer from another part of the body will metastasize (spread) to one or even both of the adrenal glands. Among the common cancers that will sometimes spread in this way are renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer), melanoma (a type of skin cancer), lung cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer and lymphoma (lymph node cancer). Considering tumor of lung or lymphoma as source of enlargment
Answered 3/19/2015
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