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Can you tell me docs, is cancer truly not infectious?
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Yes I can: Cancer starts when normal cells get damaged and keep growing, forming a lump and sometimes moving to other parts of the body. Cancer can be caused by infections, but cancer itself is not an infection and does not spread from person to person like an infection would. However, viruses that cause cancer can be spread between people. Examples are hepatitis c and the wart virus hpv.
Answered 11/27/2014
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