If cancer can spread so easily throughout your body, why can’t it spread from person to person? Aka why isn’t it contagious?

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If cancer can spread so easily throughout your body, why can’t it spread from person to person? Aka why isn’t it contagious?

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Cancer cells are *your* cells so they can only grow inside *you*. For the same reason transplant patients have to take anti-rejection medication, your cancer cannot survive in someone else’s body.

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