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What causes mesothelioma cancer?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 9/10/2019

Up to 10% of cancer cases are hereditary. Smoking has been linked to lung cancer, and excessive sun exposure to skin cancers. Other than that we're still pretty much in the dark about what causes cancer.

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