Do single celled organisms get cancer?

JoshCaleb12

Nope... "...though cancer does not occur in single-celled organisms such as yeast..." Quoted from the following website... http://www.hhmi.org/genesweshare/a300.html Oct 16 05, 11:57 PM

Legolaschic

There's just the teensy problem of cancer being a disease in which the cells undergo rapid and uncontrolled division...wouldn't do much for the whole remaining single-celled thing... Oct 17 05, 10:58 PM

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