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Can cancer result from breathing in lung cancer cells?
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Breathing cancer: As far as we know, you can not get cancer by breathing in cancer cells.
Answered 5/3/2013
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No: Your body's immune system will handle foreign cells, so people do not transmit cancer person to person. You can get cancer from breathing in toxins, but that is not transferred from person to person either.
Answered 5/18/2013
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