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A member asked:
Can you transfer cancer to someone without cancer by injecting yourself with a cancerouse cell? iv always been curiouse.
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No: Cancer is not transmissible in humans. There are no known cases of cancer being passed from person-to-person via blood transfusions or needle stick. The immune system of the recipient will kill the foreign cancer cells. However, a cancer-causing virus could be transferred that may cause cancer years later. Interestingly there is a facial tumor in tasmanian devils that spreads between animals.
Answered 3/24/2014
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