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Does it ever happen that a hospital lab use it to find possible cancer cells or where it is coming from?
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Use what?: Your question is unclear. A pathologist can look at a biopsy specimen and with additional tests determine where a cancer came from. Is that what you want to know?
Answered 8/24/2013
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