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Genuinely curious, can burning tissue really cause cancer? Like if I put my hand over a fire for too long and get a 3rd degree burn?
by asxd 4y ago
Genuinely curious, can burning tissue really cause cancer? Like if I put my hand over a fire for too long and get a 3rd degree burn?
- mattkrause 4y agoA full-thickness burn is going to cause a lot of problems; an increased risk of cancer down the road is likely to be the least of your problems. That said, inflammation and tumors are surprisingly tightly linked: many tumors co-opt inflammatory pathways, or use them to establish favorable "micro-environments" that allow the cancer to proliferate. Here's a review about the link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803035/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2803035/