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If you have chest pain of possible mesothelioma would the tumor more than likely be big enough to see on a x-ray or ct scan?
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It is highly likely: that either X-ray or CT-scan would be sufficiently discriminatory to pick up a tumor of reasonable size regardless of symptoms of chest pain.
Answered 11/9/2017
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