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Cancer: any time there is surgery to attempt to remove a tumor it will always result in cancer spreading through muscle and veins of the body, right?
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No: Surgery for cancer is not generally a factor in the spread of tumors and certainly not through the muscles.
Answered 7/14/2016
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