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What can cause duodenal cancer?

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Mutation: Anyone with duodenal adenocarcinoma deserves to be checked for the same genetic mutations that produce colon cancer. Or it may be dumb luck. I hope you have a good result from what i expect will be a surgical intervention.

Dr Hoepfner and 2 doctors agreed

Answered 9/6/2019

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