pain persists after healing without detectable damage

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Pain can continue after healing or appear without visible damage

Pain is not a simple measure of how much tissue is damaged right now. It can continue after an injury seems to have healed, and it can sometimes appear even when doctors cannot find an injury or disease causing it.

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Most cancer deaths happen after the cancer spreads

Cancer cells can leave the original tumor and grow in other parts of the body. This process is called metastasis. Most cancer deaths are caused by cancer after it has spread rather than by the original tumor alone.

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Hawaiʻi's Indigenous population fell sharply

Fewer Than 40,000

After Europeans and Americans arrived carrying diseases such as smallpox, measles, tuberculosis, and syphilis, the population fell from an estimated 300,000 to one million people to fewer than 40,000 by 1890.

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