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If a patient with primary clear cell renal cancer produce erythropoitin got metastasis, will mets do produce erythropoitin as primary in all cases?

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Varied: In such a case not all of the metastasis will always produce epo.

Dr Singh and 2 doctors agreed

Answered 3/20/2019

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