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Medium bumps that swell on both lower legs to the side of my shins = cancer?
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See your doc: It is hard to tell what is the cause of this without an evaluation but what you are describing could be an erythema nodosum. Please see your physician when these bumps appear.
Answered 1/19/2014
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