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Can i get tumor cancer through contact with affected person? how is it transmitted?
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Cancer: What type of Cancer? Cancer is usually not transmissible disease. Though some infectious or transmissible disease can predispose to cancer i.e HIV to lymphoma and Kaposi Sarcoma, HPV to Cervical and Esophageal CA
Answered 8/25/2014
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