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Why Is Heart Cancer So Rare?

Why don’t we hear about people getting heart cancer? Turns out that some types of cells are less susceptible to cancer than others.

Hosted by: Michael Aranda

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Sources:

The One Cancer You Don’t Have to Worry About


http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/11/24/why_dont_you_hear_about_people_getting_heart_cancer/
http://health.clevelandclinic.org/2012/11/can-you-get-heart-cancer/
http://www.mayoclinic.org/heart-cancer/expert-answers/faq-20058130
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0072594/
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/there-are-many-kinds-of-c/
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/324/5923/98

Image Sources:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Myocardiocyte.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_showing_a_malignant_tumour_CRUK_069.svg

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