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Cancer can be discovered by various means, like feeling a lump with the hands, finding a shadow on an X-ray or finding an abnormal result on a blood test. But it is not cancer until a pathologists says it is cancer. And pathologists need a piece of the tumour to examine under the microscope, so the diagnosis of cancer requires a biopys or a surgery.
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