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As duty doctor, you are asked to urgently visit a 68 year-old man at home. He has a history of prostate cancer and has developed progressively severe lumbar back pain over the past two days. You suspect a diagnosis of metastatic spinal cord compression and arrange emergency admission to hospital.
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