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Can you get eye cancer from something stuck in your eye?
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No: Penetrating trauma of the eye can cause major problems, but cancer is not among them.
Answered 12/9/2013
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No: Even the bizarre scenarios that i've read (for example, thorns behind the eye for years) haven't produced cancers. This is not to make light of the other harm that might happen.
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