EPISODE · Mar 19, 2012 · 5 MIN

Can you Catch Cancer?

from Question of the Week, from the Naked Scientists · host Dr Chris Smith

Could you get cancer from someone else? Tasmanian devils can catch cancer transmitted through biting. Are there instances of cancers being transmitted this way in humans? Can you catch cancer through a blood transfusion? Plus we ask, why is there not an upper absolute in the temperature scale...... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

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