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odiroot on Jan 5, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: A neuroscientist prepares for death

Why is heart cancer so particularly rare? Not many fast dividing cells or so?

Out_of_Characte on Jan 5, 2022 [–]

Yeah, heart cells expand rather than divide to repair damaged tissue, which is why primary heart cancer is very very rare. The author had synovial sarcoma which is a metastatic cancer.

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