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Help please! is colon cancer and bile duct cancer basically the same thing?
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Completely different: Colon cancer originates in the colon. Bile duct cancer originates in the bile ducts either within the liver or in the parts of the bile duct system outside of the liver (common hepatic and common bile ducts).
Answered 5/11/2013
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Nope: Different diseases with different treatments.
Answered 4/30/2013
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