The Rarest Cancer in History (It's Also the Weirdest)

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The medical industry has developed countless methods and tools for diagnosing the myriad of illnesses that can befall us. This, as you might guess, includes cancer. But it took a research team five months to diagnose this specific cancer case, and that’s due purely to its highly abnormal nature.

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