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Can strands of hair of a cancer patient whose demise had unfortunately occurred a year ago contain positive living cancer cells?

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No: Parts of a human do not stay alive on their own after being removed from a human. That is true for normal cells and for abnormal cells such as cancer cells.

Answered 1/12/2018

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