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Wanted to know if blood transfusions mean cancer is in your blood stream?
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No: Transfusions given usually for anemia are usually selected from healthy patients. Even if an unknown malignant situation were present in the donor and there were cancer cells in circulation, implantation in any tissue and tumor growth would not occur. The cells would have to have shed and not just been present in the blood and the recipient would have to have been on immunosuppressive agents.
Answered 7/6/2014
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