Comments on: Why aren’t most tumors transmissible?

By: Peer

Peer — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:39:00 +0000

Ian, just came across this article and thought it might fit well with the above theme:

Isoda et al. PNAS 2009. Immunologically silent cancer clone transmission from mother to offspring.
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/10/09/0904658106.abstract

By: iayork

iayork — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 13:44:17 +0000

Gartner HV, Seidl Ch, Luckenbach C, et al. Genetic analysis of a sarcoma accidentally transplanted from patient to a surgeon. N Engl J Med 1996;335:
1494–1496.

While looking that up I discovered a series of conceptually similar transmissions I hadn’t known about, and that I’ll post about later.

By: Song

Song — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 07:45:56 +0000

Very interesting!
Do you by any chance have a link to an original report about the surgeon who was inoculated with another person’s cancer?