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If a person were diagnosed with an early form of cancer, how long does it take to run its course?
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Depends: On many things, especially the type. A well-differentiated liposarcoma can sit and grow quietly for decades. People who neglect basal cell carcinomas have watched as they take years to destroy an eye or grow into the brain. Oat cell carcinoma can appear as a toenail-sized mass on a chest x-ray and kill a person in 30 days.
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