What’s the R0 on cancer again?
There are a number of ways to get cancer as the result of infectious disease (Kaposi's sarcoma, one of the characteristic infections of AIDS, is a kind of cancer)
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Right there are infectious diseases that can cause cancers, but actually communicable cancers are much rarer. I know of the Tasmanian devil face cancer but that’s the only one I can think of offhand.
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Well there was that poor surgeon that cut himself while removing a tumor. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/science/scientists-ponder-the-prospect-of-contagious-cancer.html … Though there is the lingering possibility that it could happen.
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