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TIL that Dr. Armand Trousseau, who first identified the link between blood clots and cancer [called Trousseau Syndrome], died of cancer soon after finding a blood clot in his leg; thus, self-diagnosing, suffering and succumbing to the very disease he discovered and named after himself.

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