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If cancer cells were implanted into a body without cancer, would the healthy person develop cancer?
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Usually Not: The healthy body does not allow foreign cancer cells to establish in the body. They are rejected or removed by the normal immune system. Only if there is impairment of the immune system there is some chance that cancer cells could establish and grow in another person's body.
Answered 1/24/2014
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