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Is it possible for a person to get cancer by getting blood from someone with cancer?
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No.: We are at the threshold of being able to find cancer cells in a patient's blood stream, and these methods seem to indicate that when you see this finding, outlook is less favorable. If cancer cells are in a donatde unit, they contain hla antigens. The blood is matched for ABO and rh antigen, but not hla, so your immune system would reject the cancer cell. No repoprted case ever.
Answered 1/12/2015
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