How a surgeon caught cancer from a patient he was operating on
The surgeon was removing a man’s tumour when he cut his hand (Picture: Shutterstock)
Cancer isn’t contagious – you can’t pick it up the way you’d catch a virus – but there are very rare cases where cancer has been transferred from one person to another.
It has happened, for example, that cancer cells from an organ donor have caused cancer to grow in the recipient.
Usually a person’s blood will reject another individual’s cancerous cells, but organ recipients take medicines to weaken their immune systems...
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