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2643885 No.2643885 [Reply] [Original]

Could cancer mutate and become airborne?

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread20005/pg1

>> No.2643890

Cancer ins't a virus you dope. it can't mutate

>> No.2645160

Cancer is constantly mutating. The neoplastic genome is highly unstable. And it could become airborne, as much as any other cell can become airborne. But it is not communicable. Except in Tasmanian Devils.

>> No.2645183

>>2643885
>airborne cancer

made me chuckle
7/10

>> No.2645191

Cancer isn't directly communicable but there are plenty of illnesses which cause cancer that are. HPV is the go-to example here. And while there's no virus I know of that causes cancer 100% of the time, and none that cause cancer that are airborne, there's no reason to assume such a virus can't exist.

>> No.2645197

>>2645183

HEY EVERYBODY, WE MADE CANCER AIRBORNE AND CONTAGIOUS. YOU'RE WELCOME. WE'RE SCIENCE.

>> No.2645214 [DELETED] 

>>2645183

>airborne plague

Made him chuckle.

>> No.2645221
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2645221

>>2645183

>Airborne plague.

Made him chuckle.

>> No.2645501

cancer can only be transmitted from one person to another if it is caused by some sort of infectious agent, as in the case of the Tasmanian devils stated above

>> No.2645506

lulz!

>> No.2645638

There's a kind of cancer among tasmanian devils that seems to hope from animal to animal. There is an episode of Radio Lab about it.