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Bivalve Cancer Spreads Through Seawater

posted by takyon on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:13AM   
from the two-cancerous-for-me dept.

butthurt writes:

ZME Science reports on a Nature article (full article is paywalled) (DOI: 10.1038/nature18599) about a disease called disseminated neoplasia. The disease is a group of cancers which are thought to spread via seawater. They affect mussels, cockles, and golden carpet shell clams.

Among mussels and cockles, the cancer cells come from the same species, but the cancer infecting golden carpet shell clams comes from a different species, Venerupis corrugata , the pullet carpet shell.

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• To Avoid Crotch RotTo Avoid Crotch Rot (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:26AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:26AM (#367932)

  Keep your cock or clam away from seawater.

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• Re:To Avoid Crotch RotRe:To Avoid Crotch Rot (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:39AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:39AM (#367936)

  Also keep your tasmanian devil away from tasmanian devils.

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  • Re:To Avoid Crotch RotRe:To Avoid Crotch Rot (Score: 2) by butthurt on Thursday June 30 2016, @04:44PM

    by butthurt (6141) on Thursday June 30 2016, @04:44PM (#368030) Journal

    post is actually on-topic, as tasmanian devils also suffer from a contagious non-viral cancer:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease [wikipedia.org]

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    • Don't forget the dog one...(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @09:48PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @09:48PM (#368165)

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canine_transmissible_venereal_tumor [wikipedia.org] - Supposedly 5000+ years old. It is the HeLa cell like of dog tumors, and apparently still out in the wild (although rare.)

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• Re:To Avoid Crotch RotRe:To Avoid Crotch Rot (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:42AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:42AM (#367938)

  Your clam will be fine as long as you're not blonde.

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  • Re:To Avoid Crotch Rot(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:47AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 30 2016, @10:47AM (#367940)

    If you are blonde you could just shave your carpet.

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