“A lot of times, people are worried they have the rarest cancer you’ve ever heard of on the Internet,” says Dr. Joshua Tobin, director of trauma anesthesiology at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. “Almost never is that the case.” Phew. But too often, patients brush off seemingly benign symptoms that could signal something serious.
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