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I have woken up a couple of times in the past couple of weeks to my legs drenched in sweat below the knee. is this a sign of cancer or something bad?

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Dr. Ed Friedlander
Dr. Ed Friedlanderanswered
Pathology 45 years experience
No: Nobody knows why this happens. If you have accompanying fever or weight loss, or you develop an obviously over-enlarged lymph node or two, cough, or splinter hemorrhages on your proximal nailbeds, get seen.
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