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    • January 11, 2013 at 11:54 pm
    ThatHomeschoolDad
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      Seeing as my aunt was just dx today with Stage IV cutaneous, I have Stage IV ocular, and her father (my grandfather) had prostate and parkinsons when he died, this kinda fits together:

      http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/jaaj-sea083012.php

      Granted, there's that whole corrleation-does-not-imply-causality thing, but interesting nonetheless.

      –Tom

      Seeing as my aunt was just dx today with Stage IV cutaneous, I have Stage IV ocular, and her father (my grandfather) had prostate and parkinsons when he died, this kinda fits together:

      http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/jaaj-sea083012.php

      Granted, there's that whole corrleation-does-not-imply-causality thing, but interesting nonetheless.

      –Tom

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