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A member asked:
Can you tell me which are the particles that a lung cancer patient emmit when he/she coughs or exhale?
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Mucous and blood: You can have pieces of a lung cancer coughed up if it involves the airway, but usually it is mucous and blood. Even if tumor is present, you cannot pass cancer to someone else.
Answered 2/20/2021
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