You say that like it wouldn’t be considered unethical to prove it by today’s standards. The shower thought is that could it be this is at least part of the reason why cancer rates are increasing.
You say that like it wouldn’t be considered unethical to prove it by today’s standards. The shower thought is that could it be this is at least part of the reason why cancer rates are increasing.
Look into the Southam experiments. It was unethical even for its time, but people were injected with cancer cells from another person without their consent and subsequently developed cancer.
Look into the Southam cancer experiments.
The Southam experiments proved otherwise.
You might want to tell that to the experiment subjects who developed cancer after being injected with it, then, proving that cancer will take hold in a person if those cells end up in their body, just like if you’re injected with a live virus, it will try to take hold in the person’s body.
Tell that to the people who developed cancer after being injected with it, then, proving that cancer will develop in a person if those cells end up in their body, just like if you’re injected with a live virus, it will try to take hold.
Cancer cells are a bit like HIV in that they evade the immune system by releasing some chemical to trick it. Hence why in an infamous unethical experiment after the war, people injected with another person’s cancer developed cancer. So even if it is another person’s cancer cells, the cancer will metastasize in the body.
And yet, the Southam experiments proved that if someone is injected with cancer cells of another person, they develop cancer, proving that cancer cells ending up in the body poses the danger of transmission, just like with a virus.