
Contagious Cancers
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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Is There a Flaw in the Amune System That Allows This Type of Cancer?
We don't know how it spreads from one organism to the next. The hypothesis is that somehow the cell is released to the environment. So maybe the temperature and the salinity and all these conditions might have an impact. And finally, these vivers, what they usually do in nature is that they filter water. Probably by filtering water, they take some canser cells that were floating in the water,. Those scance sas go east side, and then they start to the bel mammals andmune systems have evolved in a way to detect things that are foreign and get rid of them. But i'm guessing the amuse system of bivalves is quite different to amuse systems like ours.
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