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A member asked:
If cancer started in the penis would you be dead before it got to the brain? or could it spread all the way to the brain and then kill you?
3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers
Testicles cancer: It has a propensity to travel to the brain. Most people die from it after it reaches the brain and not having it treated.
Answered 9/4/2016
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Cancer spread: The spread of cancer is 3 ways: local where infiltrates surrounding area; through the lymph system which goes through the body like the blood system. Both these systems can spread cancer to any part of the body at any one time if the cancer is in it. If the cancer is not in one of the systems the cancer may never get to the brain. The general answer to your question is either could occur.
Answered 10/16/2016
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