The Rarest Cancer on Earth: Only One Known Case

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You've heard of Breast Cancer, Skin Cancer, Colon Cancer, and many others. But this specific cancer was something entirely different—it took a research team five months to diagnose this specific cancer case, and that’s due purely to its highly abnormal nature. Learn more about the mysterious cancer with only one known cause in this new episode of SciShow!

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