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A pre-cancerous condition is a disease, or syndrome (collection of symptoms) that may sometimes develop into a particular type of cancer. It doesn’t mean that you have or will definitely get a cancer but it’s important that you are monitored by doctors.
Find out about breast calcifications, or small areas of calcium in the breast, and how they are diagnosed
Get information about essential thrombocythaemia (ET), one of a group of conditions known as the chronic myeloproliferative diseases (CMPDs)
Get information about a group of conditions known as the myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) that affect the bone marrow
Get information about chronic idiopathic myelofibrosis, which belongs to a group of conditions known as the chronic myeloproliferative diseases (CMPDs)
Get information about a non-cancerous (benign) condition called monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance (MGUS)
Get information about polycythaemia vera (PV), which is one of a group of conditions known as the chronic myeloproliferative diseases (CMPDs)
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