Contagious Cancers
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Canserise in an Animal?
Cancer cells appear to float in the water, passing from one organism into the other. How far do we think these cells can travel? Earlier this year a cancer was found in some climes in the atlantic coast of spain and also in the mediterranean coast ofspain. So what would this mean if these types of cancers impacted lots of bivalve populations? And not only animals, even with the sea water. We should now think on cancer like a parasite. In the case of contaguous cancer, it does behave as a parasite,. Try to track at least this movement so we don't put the disease into a disease free area.
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