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Could you help me please! i'm medical student and i need very accurate answer why heart cancers are so extremely rare)?
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Good question: Because the heart muscle itself is composed of cardiac myocytes which are terminally differentiated cells. This means they have terminally exited the cell cycle and are unable to proliferate, unlike epithelial cells. Cancer involves dysregulated proliferation.
Answered 10/29/2016
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