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    Why are sharks inmune to cancer?

    Question #55961. Asked by elizabethmc. (Mar 15 05 11:48 AM)


    diamond jim55

    		It's hard to light a cigarette under water?

    Mar 15 05, 12:38 PM
    Flynn_17

    		http://www.mote.org/~rhueter/sharks/cancer.phtml


    It's to do with the cartilage and the immune system.

    Mar 15 05, 4:22 PM
    gmackematix

    		Although the article suggests it is not so much the presence of cartilage but the absence of bone marrow.

    Mar 15 05, 6:33 PM

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