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Do you think that i could get cancer if i eat a cancerous testicle?

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No: "mountain oysters" are fairly popular in some parts of the usa. Cancer isn't an infection and even if a live animal cancer cell were injected into your bloodstream, your body would just reject it.

Dr Sneid and another doctor agreed

Answered 4/30/2013

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