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in my opinion, CA stands for carcinoma

Posted By: XanaX on 2008-06-28
In Reply to: Does CA stand for carcinoma or cancer or can it stand for both? TIA! - akhan

Subject: in my opinion, CA stands for carcinoma

I just checked MediLexicon (a site for abbreviations), which says CA stands for both cancer and carcinoma, so I guess my opinion is not correct. 


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