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Against a backdrop of persistent questions about missed cancer diagnoses, William Shatner disclosed this week that a physician initially identified a lump on his face as a salivary gland issue and told him to massage it.
A second doctor, a friend Shatner contacted for another opinion, recognized the growth and pushed for immediate removal.
The 95-year-old actor was subsequently found to have stage 4 malignant melanoma, with the disease already present in his brain and lung. What the diagnosis found The sequence is worth tracing carefully.
By the time an oncologist examined Shatner, the cancer had spread beyond its point of origin.
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