• Question: can a person have to forms of cancer at the same time?

    Asked by cheesecakegirl to Adam on 16 Nov 2012.
    • Photo: Adam Paige

      Adam Paige answered on 16 Nov 2012:

      it is possible but unlikely. Our bodies are good at avoiding cancer so the chance that it had failed twice at the same time is rare. But one cancer can spread round the body and be growing in several places at once. That is much more common (its called metastasis).

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