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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by vmception on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:05PM (#27635585)
Not my problem, human cancers stay in there own bodies and are not communicable

To our knowledge

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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by jacquesm on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:44PM (#27636032)
Not normally, no. But there are some puzzling exceptions:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-cancers-that-are...

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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by vmception on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:49PM (#27636078)
These are all in animals and I specified human cancers for that specific reason, thanks for the article though, I only knew about the Tasmanian Devil one
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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by jacquesm on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:57PM (#27636179)
Yes, correct. But there are also some viruses that cause cancer that can spread from human to human (HPV for instance, the cause of cervical cancer), and the case of that doctor is some proof that at least in theory cancer can spread by blood or tissue contact.
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Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou... by vmception on Friday June 25, 2021 @07:10PM (#27637364)
Yeah got vaxxed against that, fingers crossed
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