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Advanced cancer is treatable of course! The median survival for some types of advanced breast cancer is 7 years from diagnosis. Those patients may present with pain, start treatment, and get better. Happens all the time.

As for a citation, well nobody has done a study on that specific point, I'm talking from my experience of 500 or so patients.




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