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A liver met showed on a scan in august . jan scan shows an increase , if it was 16 mm then how much more would it increase by?

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Variable: Metastatic disease of the liver can increase in size and number at varying rates dependent on nature of cancer. How aggressive is tumor. Cannot give specific answer.

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Answered 1/18/2015

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