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Is blood cancer contagious?are you at risk if you touch the blood of. blood cancer patient?
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Absolutely not: Only a few rare leukemias are linked to viruses and there's no reason to think they are transmitted other than by intimate personal contact or transfusion.
Answered 12/30/2017
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