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NAPLES, FLA. -- In the last year, Michael B. Morgan, M.D., has seen four cases of angiosarcoma on the breast of women who previously underwent radiation therapy for breast cancer.
Historically, there are only about 100 cases of angiosarcoma a year in the United States, and normally they occur in "sun-battered" areas, said Dr. Morgan, a dermatopathologist who practices in Tampa.
"I think we are at the precipice here of a real interesting and deadly epidemiologic phenomenon," said Dr. Morgan at the annual meeting of the Florida Society of Dermatology and Dermatologic Surgery.
"I...
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