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Cancer: there are about 100 different types of cancer. about how many have screening tests that initially diagnose the existence?
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An unfortunate few.: Very few types of cancer, perhaps only two or three really, have valid, proven means of screening, and even those are not perfect. One of the biggest limitations in our knowledge in medicine is the prediction of cancer.
Answered 12/10/2015
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