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Malignant tumor/cancer of adrenal gland. Some are imprecise and mean a cancer from some other tissue in body, like breast cancer, that spreads to the adrenal gland.

Dr. Stanley Schwartz reviewed this

54 year experience in Endocrinology

Is a type of:

Cancer

How long it usually lasts:

Medium-term (lasts weeks to months)

How common it is:

Rare

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