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Cancer of the esophagus is it a slow or fast grower?
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It depends: Many esophageal tumors grow quickly. It depends on how early it was caught and the biology of the cancer.
Answered 9/14/2013
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Depends: The exact type of malignancy in your esophagus helps to project the rate of growth.
Answered 9/16/2013
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