Is there any part of your body that you can't get cancer in?
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Pretty much anything with cells in it that can mutate and go crazy can have cancer. (non-expert opinion)
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You can get cancer anywhere there is a cell...
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Hair? Fingernails? Toe nails? Teeth? I don't think you can for any of them
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I don't think you can get cancer in your hair. Other than that, I think anything that is part of your body (not the hair hanging off it!) can get cancer.
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I've never heard of cancer of the ear or cancer of the appendix...just made me wonder.
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A cancer is very basically a collection of cells that have lost their function to a degree, and are no longer regulated tightly as they should be with regards to their growth/division. They obviously have to be alive in order to divide, and so a cancer has to originate in a cell that is alive. Since the vast majority of your cells are alive in your body, any of them in theory can turn cancerous. Dead cells, such as those sloughed off from the gut as food passes along it obviously cannot turn cancerous, but all your tissues are 'alive'. So blood cells, bones, brain, lung, heart, liver, colon etc all can get cancers. Some cancers are much more common than others though, due to genetic predispositions, the fact that some cancers are stimulated by hormones (e.g. many breast/endometrial cancers), and exposure to carcinogens (hence why lung and colon cancers are relatively very common). In sort, no, not to my knowledge. But some are rarer than others.
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