[The KG9 Kid]

I'm not an Oncologist, but I am unaware that it's scientifically possible to inject a subject with cancer.

I am also in doubt about whether this would work even with your own cancerous cells.

Certainly, it's impossible to take a hypodermic needle filled with cancer cells and inject a patient with it and 'give them' cancer. Cancer researchers have been trying this for decades and haven't met with success to my knowledge. Such a thing would be a milestone event in cancer research.

[dangus]

“I’m not an Oncologist, but I am unaware that it’s scientifically possible to inject a subject with cancer. “

Neither am I, but as I understand it, the point is that the recipient’s body simply treat the foreign cells as they would bacteria and kill them off. Cancer spreads precisely because the body doesn’t recognize that it shouldn’t spread, since it is the person’s own tissue. As a result, the body supplies end of nutrients to the cancer.

Metastacism (sp?) is nothing other than the the cancerous tissue breaking apart and traveling through the blood stream to other parts of the body. Essentially, the doctor metasticized the tumor. That said, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if someone confidently asserted a well-reasoned explanation for why spilled cancer cells couldn’t anchor themselves throughout the body.

[CDHart]

When I was first diagnosed with lung cancer, I had to have a needle biopsy through the chest wall. I asked the doctor who was doing it if that would spread cancer cells by dragging them through the chest wall. He said, "Not usually." Sounded like it's possible to me!

Carolyn