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I was informed that an 8 yrs old boy has prostate cancer. the boy was taken from his parents due to abuse. can this be true?
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Not likely: But there is a similar legal debate regarding other types of treatment-responsive malignancies...see link. http://jco.ascopubs.org/content/24/34/5454.full
Answered 5/20/2017
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