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TIL that a 28 year old Russian man went to the doctor for coughing up blood and having chest pains. The doctors diagnosed it as cancer, but it turned out to be a fir tree growing inside his lungs. (www.telegraph.co.uk)

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[-] CallMeM@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

so... technically still a cancer?

[-] Pagliacci@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Sounds like these were normal cells, just in an abnormal location...

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