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Rare Bone-Eating Cancer Replaced Man’s Finger and Toe

Rare Bone-Eating Cancer Replaced Man’s Finger and Toe

A 55-year-old man’s swollen toes and fingers turned out to have a much stranger explanation than expected. In a recent case report, the man’s doctors detailed how some of his bones were “completely replaced” by metastatic tumors. Doctors in Australia described the case earlier this month in the New England Journal of Medicine. The man visited the hospital after weeks …

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