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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by babesh on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:01AM (#23289494)
You can absolutely catch cancer. Just work in a toxic environment or have a spouse that smokes a couple of packs a day. It just takes a lot longer.
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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by Nasrudith on Sunday May 24, 2020 @02:36AM (#23289637)
Catching means the disease itself is contagious - it is the environment or habbit which spreads it as opposed to a cancer patient coughing on you and giving you cancer - unless radiation treatment has gone /very/ wrong through historic levels of medical malpractice.

Indefinite chaining area of effect vs just area of effect roughly.

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by babesh on Sunday May 24, 2020 @07:11PM (#23295769)
I think you are mostly right but reality, as usual, is much more complicated than that. HPVs give you cancer.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_papillomavirus_infection

Also there are other viruses that also cause cancer

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virus#Cancer

So you very well could have a cancer patient coughing on you and giving you cancer but the underlying cause is the virus that they have (that caused their cancer) rather than the cancer itself. So you have chaining of cancer (albeit via a virus).

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Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline by babesh on Monday May 25, 2020 @07:00PM (#23305786)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncovirus

"The World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer estimated that in 2002, infection caused 17.8% of human cancers"

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