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> Heart cancer? Who the hell gets heart cancer?! Yeah, this kind of cancer seems exceedingly rare. But of course, being a hypochondriac I will worry about this

• at_a_remove 5y ago
  A close friend's father died of a cancer around the heart, to the best of my knowledge.
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• odiroot 5y ago
  Why is heart cancer so particularly rare? Not many fast dividing cells or so?
  • Out_of_Characte 5y ago
    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. we live everyday as if theres a tomorrow while playing a cosmic lottery