There is a new study that found, my the use of mice, that if someone has a predisposition to getting cancer, having a cut or a burn can increase the chances of that person getting tumor growth around the cut or burn. The article goes on to say that a lot of cancers are related to wounds. That of liver, bone and skin to name a few. The study, done by Sunny Wong and Jeremy Reiter of the University of California, San Francisco concluded that when they 'infected' mice with a mutated cancer cell, no tumors were found on those mice who were not injured at the time. However, when doing the same process to mice who were injured, a cluster of tumors arose at the injury site.
I found this article interesting because I had never really thought of cancer being one of those things that could be effected by a simple cut or minor burn, etc. Sure, it does make sense that if someone already has cancer and are on chemo therapy and gets a cut or burn, of course they are at more risk of infection and other things because their immune system is compromised. Again, this article made me think that such a simple thing as a cut could actually create tumors in someone who is in a predisposition for cancer.
This article was found here
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