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Can cancer be an acute disease?
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Can appear so.: It takes several years for that one mutated cancer cell to multiply enough to form a detectable mass. But symptom-wise, cancer can seem like an acute illness as the symptoms have to develop at some point. At that moment, the cancer caused a symptom, so as such it can seem acute while actually chronic. Hope this made sense.
Answered 2/29/2016
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