Imagine you take a persons (that has cancer) blood and inject it into another person with the same blood type. Will he/she get cancer too?
What if you inject someone with cancer cells?
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Imagine you take a persons (that has cancer) blood and inject it into another person with the same blood type. Will he/she get cancer too?
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Most likely no.
The issue is your immune system will know it’s foreign and destroy the cells without issue.
With your own cancer cells they trick your immune system to think that the cancer cells are normal and healthy, so they can spread and cause issues.
Don’t, just don’t. Infective cancer amongst Tasmanian Devils is transmitted this way.
Likely the immune system will recognize the cells, cancerous or otherwise, as foriegn bodies and attack them. Cancer becomes established in the body if cancerous cells can avoid the immune system’s detection, which is rare in one’s own body and even more rare in cells artificially introduced to another body.
sv40 was in the original polio vaccines and tons of those people ended up with cancer
No
I think the most common way this happens is more like via an organ transplant. Particularly since they put you on immunosuppressors for the transplant, if the organ is cancerous, you can develop cancer yourself. This is one reason why organ quality requirements are so high.
Doesn’t work that way
You would be an asshole, don’t do that
Possibly. “Devil facial tumour disease” is “an example of transmissible cancer, which means that it is contagious and passed from one animal to another.”
Ok… so if the cancer is metasisized (think that’s the right word…) and thus cancerous traveling through the body already… and you got cells of that cancerous nature as they were traveling through the body… you may give the injected person cancer. But… it’s basically guaranteed if you go from a Lymphocyte to another Lymphocyte with cancerous cells.