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Could you get cancer on your knee?
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Yes: There are several ways to have this happen: primary tumor of the bones (ewings sarcoma for example, mostly in young people) bone metastases to the region primary tumor(s) of the connective tissue (adult sarcoma) skin cancer in the region leukemia with disease in the marrow and there are others... It is a relatively rare presentation.
Answered 5/31/2016
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