
Contagious Cancers
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Can Cancers Escape the Immune System?
contagious cancers frequently live much longer than those that just arise and remain within a single individual. This can give us insight into the optimal evolutionary routes that cancers can take. But also they can tell us about how cancers can adapt to escape the immune system under fairly extreme circumstances. In recent years, we've discovered that cancers also team up with the microbes in the body.
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