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    Do wild animals get cancer? Humans and domesticated animals seem to be contracting cancer at phenominal rates. Just wondering if processed food could have any bearing on cancer in animals.

    Question #96544. Asked by Twodeez. (Jun 11 08 9:49 AM)


    zbeckabee

    		Few wild animals have cancer. When researchers want to create cancer in lab animals, they generally feed them cooked food.

    http://www.whatisaids.com/raw.htm

    Jun 11 08, 10:04 AM
    BRY2K

    		Sharks do.

    Scientists have not yet conducted a comprehensive study of cancer rates among sharks, and currently available evidence does not allow them to assess the causes of the cancers they have found.

    The myth that sharks do not get cancer sprang up in part because of their isolation from humans, which reduces their exposure to carcinogenic pollutants and the likelihood that sharks with tumors will be caught, Ostrander explains. Proponents of shark cartilage also selectively used scientific results to bolster their case, he notes. For example, a single effort to give sharks tumors in a laboratory failed.

    http://web.ncf.ca/bz050/sharksgetcancer.html

    Jun 11 08, 10:06 AM

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