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It is because it is a symptom.

As an example: Nobody cares about clubbed fingernails either, but it can indicate something much worse.




I was really concerned you were talking about the old wives tale that clubbed fingers meant you were more likely to be a criminal or something… but I googled it and apparently it correlates to having lung cancer? Interesting.


Can be correlated to lung cancer, or heart disease.




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