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Cancer is difficult to diagnose because of all the different types. Not only are there different places you can have cancer, there are different types of tumors you can have. Cancer is difficult to treat because of all the different types. Cancer is actually a general title for almost a hundred different diseases of the genes of DNA.

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it's like a virus, it changes all the time, it also moves around the body so it has to be found fast

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pancreatic cancer is the most difficult.

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