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How can you test for throat cancer or tumors?
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Throat cancer: First see ENT. MD can check mucosal surfaces, do endoscopy, feel for lymph nodes. if any findings, biopsy and imaging studies indicated, i.e. CT, MRI, US
Answered 12/31/2016
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