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lidoalex

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Pancreatic cancer accounts for 3 of new cancer cases, but survival rates are usually poor. Why is this?
 
  a. It is usually diagnosed only after it has metastasized widely.
  b. Most chemotherapy drugs are used to treat other types of cancer.
  c. Radiation therapy cannot be used on the pancreas.
  d. A patient cannot survive without the pancreas, and most chemotherapy treatments would destroy the pancreas.

Question 2

Neoplasms of the endocrine system appear in both Chapter 4, Endocrine, Nutritional, and Metabolic Diseases and Chapter 2, Neoplasms.
 
  a. True
   b. False
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mammy1697

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Reply #1 on: Jun 27, 2018
Answer to Question 1

Answer: a

Answer to Question 2

Answer: b


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