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Why Isn’t Heart Cancer a Thing?
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- The video asks why cancer of the heart is so rare that most people have never met anyone with it.
- According to the description, it took scientists years to work out the reason heart cancer is uncommon.
- The description does not state the reason itself.
Why watch · It explains a rare cancer type and the research effort behind understanding why it is so uncommon.
- Heart cancer
- Cancer rarity
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