Ban removal of tumors. Not your body. Not your choice. *dabs*
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Technically, cancer has different DNA, so it is a separate entity.
Honest question, if anyone knows: if a cancerous tumor were separated from the human body, is there any way it could survive on its own?
@unklethan Cancer is typically the proliferation of one type of tissue. If that type of tissue happens to be a germ cell, you'll have an extremely rare type of tumor called a teratoma. Those tumors can contain hair and teeth and eyes and are generally a living nightmare (google at your own peril) but they still lack the overall tremendous developmental capacity of a zygote. So, no, from our technology today, you wouldn't be able to coax a self-sustaining life from a cancerous growth at this point. The only exception to date, of course, is Martin Shkreli.
Does anyone know if a tooth-or-hair-carrying tumor would have DNA similar enough to put one at the scene of a crime?
Also, if one's tumor grew a tooth, would that tooth be included in the dental records that would be used to identify exploded remains and prove that a person certainly did not fake their own death and flee to the Bahamas?
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Unkle - yes the dna would match, no the tooth would be off the radar, and faking a death seems like a lot of work if you have to grow a teratoma first :)
Tapeworms are multicellular eukaryotes -- just like you and me.
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@unkleethan fetuses in the first trimester don’t feel anything, and are little more than a zygote feeding on the host, much like a tapeworm. I don’t believe it’s until halfway through the second trimester or even the third that nerves start to form along with the rest of the body, at that point it’s illegal (unless complications leading to death of mother or child) to abort the fetus
Honest question, if anyone knows: if a cancerous tumor were separated from the human body, is there any way it could survive on its own?
Also, if one's tumor grew a tooth, would that tooth be included in the dental records that would be used to identify exploded remains and prove that a person certainly did not fake their own death and flee to the Bahamas?
Asking for a friend
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Unkle - yes the dna would match, no the tooth would be off the radar, and faking a death seems like a lot of work if you have to grow a teratoma first :)
Source?