Can You Catch Cancer?
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- Can you catch cancer from someone else?
WARNING: There is a graphic image of a poor tasmanian devil with facial tumors in this episode.
Hosted by: Hank Green
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"Cancer is an inside job." - Hank Green 2015
+Jason Brown Cancer cells can't melt steel beams.
Cancer did 9/11
Cancer created isis
George Bush had cancer
+Jason Brown JET BEAMS CAN MELT STEEL FUEL! 9-11 WAS AN OUTSIDE JOB!
Short answer: no. Long answer: yes.
+RBuckminsterFuller I like how the lang answer is one more letter.
+RBuckminsterFuller
Short answer: No.
Long answer: Not normally.
i thought you meant yes is a longer word than no, but i realized what you meant
Short Answer:No you can only catch Cancer causing VIRUS.
+seigeengine
Short answer- no
Long answer- no*
There must be a deep meaning behind the choice of using a green screen to insert a green background.
g a s p
How did I not notice that-
It's a chalkboard. Duh!
Probably a choice from Hank Green
Vsauce music starts playing
QQ: Why do we itch, and why does scratching help?
Yes!!
czcams.com/video/VZDUOgeq2qI/video.html
I've heard that our nerve endings cause itching and scratching the spot distracts the nerve and helps it to stop itching
"WARNING: There is a graphic image of a poor tasmanian devil with facial tumors in this episode. "
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Thanks for the warning.
Cancer being contagious is so rare that it even made it into an episode of House MD (season 5, episode 2)
It's tipus
Also in the TV show Bones, when a girl developed cancer from a bone marrow transplant or something like that.
You can catch cancer by playing League of Legends.
so true. .......
Kappa
+MrLmaoLover dota > lol
*grabs popcorn*
Amrit Literally anything > Mobas
Complex stop using cancer like this, it is a serious problem, how would you like if you are painfully dying and I act like that doesn't matter and just make jokes about it?
this is why i love scishow. as i clicked my thought process was "huh? no. maybe cervical cancer?" it was really interesting to hear that it does happen in some species and that there really are freak accidents.
This turned out to be a really fascinating episode in a lot of ways I didn't expect when I decided to watch it! Thanks for making it!
About a year ago I was down at a nearby river on a hot summer day catching fish. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I caught cancer. Sneaky little bugger pinched it's claw on a fish and didn't want to let go! So I took him home and ever since then, I had a cancer. Or crab, if you don't like latin and don't care about the genus name of the species. He's so funny and lovely, best pet I've ever had! Oh, wait, we're talking about catching a different type of cancer, don't we? Damn... And I wanted to keep on going and tell you about the time I was catching lobsters in the ocean and caught this massive guy that nearly punctured through my toe with his claw... :( #Kappa
Except thats not its full name and would be pronounced Kanker since all c's in latin are actually hard c's
Quinn Valor
You think you're so smart, huh? Then ask the crab what his name is! "Cancer" is his answer. And trust me, you don't want to argue with him, he nearly took my balls off the last time I wanted to name him something cool... #Kappa
LordDragox412 Except when you were calling him cancer you were referring to the latin name of it as shown in your comment "...I had a cancer. Or crab, if you don't like latin..." #Keepo
Quinn Valor
That's because cancer = crab in Latin. It's full name and pronunciation don't matter, as "Cancer" is also his name. You simply got confused and came down to assumptions, admit it. Too bad I'm his owner now and I know better about who he is and everything else about him than you. AYEM SOUPERIOR! #KappaHD
+LordDragox412 Funny thing, in russian cancer is рак, and the same word (рак) means crawfish.
"...he cut his hand while it was inside the patient."
I hope that wasn't during a prostate exam...
So I was watching this video and just taking in all this information and it occurred to me that it was a tiny little portion of the medical knowledge regarding these topics, and it made me realize how much work had to be done to discover these things. It's incredible.
loving the high quality, higher quantity videos hank and the scishow crew!
@SciShow Thankyou so much for answering my question, it has been insightful and Im pleased to receive your swift response. You're my hero, Hank Green!
Is this in response to smarter every day?
+daniel tabin Many youtubers collab to talk about a subject during the same time period
chinito77 That could also be. I wasn't saying they were copying or anything, I was just curious if they were related
+daniel tabin collab ^^, no plagiarism involved
+daniel tabin Perhaps the scientific youtube community was somehow made aware of this by a devil conservation effort.
+daniel tabin exactly what I thought.
poor taz, no more tornados
Wait so for dogs cancer is a STD
how can someone dislike this ?? .... really, how, the info was informative, the way it was presented was easy to follow, it dealt with a topic of concern and one we know about all too well .... how can you dislike this for fucks sake ?!
+Jonathan Cross Because sometimes people have opinions.
yeah im aware, but its disturbing to think someone thought this was deserving of any form of negative criticism when all it did was inform people about these conditions and how we are lucky its not easily transmitable among us ... wouldnt you agree ??
+Jonathan Cross And what if the video was a video that you in particular did not like at all. Would you downvote it to show your dislike for it regardless with how it was presented in an easy to follow format so as to let them know that you did not like the video?
i dont know about you but if someone came to learn about cancer and disliked it knowing (im pretty sure they knew) what the video is about and there is only so many ways a video would be so god awful you felt the need to dislike it, but this one dosent seem to, it may not have gone into full detail on the subject but im guessing they would expect you to do research on it, nothing wrong with that, so yes im pretty baffled, if anyone has any legitimate complaints i dont mind if you tell me them, other than a biased reason, perhaps thats what im dealing with here
Thank you so much, Hank! Very informative!
i have learned so much from this channel thanks keep up the good work.
Can bread get cancer/tumors? See the one of the TF2 SFMs
I TELEPORTED BREAD!!!
+The Pancake Mafia If you do nothing but teleport bread for 3 days yes
k thanks
+The Pancake Mafia I think it could
0:52 dang it!! I'm a Tasmanian devil.
hahaha
Had a hunch about it not being able to spread before. Thanks for the thorough explaination!
i love these longer episodes
leaving a pleasant comment...
I just want to say that I enjoy scishow very much, even though I rarely leave comments and I'm sorry for other people being jerks
I need to do homework eventually, it's 9 o clock I, it can wait
Same. Like, exactly the same.
Wow -- this was an exceptionally good episode =)
You are good ...fast....informative...and quite to the point reporting..
Well obviously you can catch cancer easily, simply just play Five Nights At Freddy's and you're done!
Kek
+Nik8Bit no chill
Or watch Markiplier...
Watching Markiplier playing FNAF? You just got Super Ebola Cancer AIDs!
James Chamberlain so true
true as fuck
Your warning was a *much* better approach than Destin's over at Smarter Every Day, who made it the thumbnail.
Good stuff. Very informative!
wow, thx guys
what a topic, i need to watch this again
this was the most interesting video I’ve ever seen for a long time, it was serious yet intriguing, no silly jokes, no monotonous ramblings, just pure fact after fact that kept me engaged. Well done sci show! He’s my favorite one on this and its related channel’s. The others sound obnoxious sometimes, make weird silly jokes, or scream a bit when trying to making a point.
So, cancerous blood pact bad idea?
Awesome video! it would be great if you could deeper inside on the molecular basis of the infection, under the primary and secondary response of the immune system
Hi! I love your videos! may i askfor a favor? Some of my close relatives are getting into alternative Cancer therapies ( Gerson, alcali diet )can your team do a video explaining why those things dont work?
wish my school taught things like this, I feel I spent most my life looking at a blank white board. Whatever they taught me always turned out to be wrong. Thanks scishow
For a moment I was worried for my dog.
:(((
:((((
Man don't be feared just don't let them other dogs
Another great episode as always, also nice shirt hank :)
I'm pretty sure that SciShow is the most useful CZcams channel. Well at least one of the most useful.
you just had to ruin my dreams of becoming a superhero
pretty sure this episode was inspired by Smarter Every Day
Thanks for making this video! Also thanks for not putting a picture of a diseased animal in the thumbnail. You guys are class acts.
keep doing whatever ur doing ur vids are amazingly good
imagine a world where 9/11 wasn't an inside job.
+lmaonade654 Thank you for your completely unrelated (and incorrect) glittering social commentary.
+lmaonade654 obvious troll is obvious
This aged well
Glad someone else is here to witness the irony
This is so much information... on subjects that are more complicated, can you split it up into parts? That would be great.
Good timing. I've been wondering how the cancer was communicable since that Smarter Every Day video
hi
Hello
+Justin Nunez bye
Hello
how can that tumor be spreading for 2500 years if there has only been 2015 years in history
because
1. there have been about 12,000 years of history (2015 is just the years we count onwards from Jesus' birth)
2. even before history there was pre-history, in which mankind did not record information, but things still did happen.
Modern Humans have been around for about 200k years
Daaamn boy
Even if you were going by the Bible you'd know that history was longer than 2015 (well 17 now) years. After all there were plenty of people in there thousands of years before Jesus showed up. Some of them lived that long, so there's your proof that you got it wrong no matter what you believe.
Unless you believe the universe was created yesterday, then we can't help you.
Danny good catch
Another STD that links to cancers is HIV. it's similar to the kaposi sarcoma, but it's called Plasmablastic Lymphoma. it's what I've been dealing with since last December. Its extremely aggressive, and fairly rare, with less than 300 case reports from 2000-2013.
Major Histocompatability Complex, yeah! Definetly grade A top learning, and im a nursing student.
keep up the great videos SciShow.
Of course you can. Just listen to an Iggy Azalea song.
My mother in law was diagnosed with mantle cell lymphoma and 6 months later my husband was diagnosed with the same lymphoma. Add in my Sister in law who has been diagnosed with lymphoma and their uncle (mother in laws brother) who died from lymphoma a couple years back. Apparently his family is being studied by some agency. They all had to send in DNA samples and fill out questionnaires. MIL, SIL and hubby all doing well after chemo.
Speaking of contagious stuff... watching in 2022
That was the most horrifying shadow play I have ever seen.
The beginning of this video hits different in 2020
Sometimes I feel like this show answers all my questions from last week's "SmarterEveryDay" video.. Because you totally did..
great info
What a great question. The answer to this question has made me much much smarter.
Best analogy at the end of the video before the patreon mention lol
Nice sync with Smarter Everyday
Posted on my birthday!
I love that this show explains everything as if you are stupid but it's not super patronizing. Most of the time people think you know more than you do and skip things. I always miss things or don't have a good enough base knowledge to understand things fully on science shows like Vsause and Veritasium.
My aunt had hepatitis she was on the wait list for a new liver for years, when she finally got one after she was already almost on her last legs we later found out there was a tumor growing in her new liver. She passed away later that year.
Nice review Hank. But you could have put out a link or a sentence on what inspired you, you would make us really "Smarter Everyday" !
very informative good job
hey dude my bio teacher uses your videos to teach us...you should be proud
thanks to sci show
with your help we can get lots of random info which we usually ignore.
could u please answer my question.
what is reason behind tears why it come out from eyes when we are emotional
Very knowledgeable
In fact there are also clams on the east coast of North America that have a transmissible cancer akin to our own blood cancer.
Thank you
So essentially there is a very small chance I can fall into a radioactive waste spill and become a super hero? Knew I should've kept hoping
thank you !
That's an excellent shirt.
I know a guy who fell off a roof while working, and broke his back. He ended up receiving tissue from a dead donor, and moved on. A while later he receives a call that that the donated tissue was or may have been diseased with cancer, even tho he didn't have this cancer, he received a one million dollar settlement because of it... I couldn't help but wish I'd fallen off that roof, and got me some cancer
Smarter every day made a video about Tasmanian devil cancer too
hey sci show do show about the see through rats and mice using uDISCO is super cool. also do show on our suns solid surface . you guys rock
The emergence of the disease coincided with the sudden widespread plantings of genetically modified (for faster growth rates) Blue Gum trees in large plantations.There is a small town (St. Helens) in Tasmania next to a plantation area that is also a hotspot for some rare types of human cancers and nobody can fully explain why The Tassie Devil facial tumours and the human cancer hotspot both emerged at the same time.. It makes you wonder.
indirectly some oesophageal cancers and stomach cancer are transmissible via HPV as well, in the same manner as cervical cancer (although not via sex ox course :-) ) There are some general cancers at the site of infections that have inflammation that are sometimes attributed to the infrction.
Falling into a radioactive chemical spill and becoming a superhero confirmed!
Hey, he compared catching cancer from someone to it, and there is an infinitesimally small chance of that happening. Thus there must be a chance of becoming a superhero from a radioactive chemical spill, even if it is infinitesimally small. Just make sure you have a cut on your body when you do it. :o)
What about SO's or parents/children/family members whom you live with? Would those protein markers be perhaps not flagged as foreign since you spend so much time together?
This episode idea brought to you by Smarter Everyday.
ayyyyyyy , referencing to smarter every day !
wait wait wait does that last part mean cancer will give me superpowers!!!
...I watched this while very tired and for a minute legit thought "but what if you're both named Anna?"
2:15 This was probably the most grotesque animation I've ever seen...
Why I am not doing anything that has anything to do with physical biological. The statement "microscopic slices of tumor" Urg.. actually had me flinching. (shudders) In school we had to study a cockroach under a microscope (Real bad memory) - I was sort of interested in Biology until that day. After that I believe I called in sick if we had to dissent anything.
Kaposi sarcoma is what killed my grandfather :( This one time I not too happy to already know what Hank is talking about...
Is it just a coincidence that Smarter Every Day just did a video about the cancer in Tasmanian devils?
I may have had an interesting idea. If the human immune system can detect foreign cancer cells from other people and kill those just fine, then could you take two cancer patients and have them each give the other a small amount of their own cancer so that their body would kill the foreign cells but in the process also be able to kill the patients own cancer cells. I could imagine doing this by maybe crushing up the foreign cancer cells or liquidizing them in some way that they could remain alive but finite enough to basically be sprinkled throughout the patients own cancer cells so they are pretty much meshed in with the pre existing cancer cells, so they kind of fuse into one, and when the bodies immune system kicks in to identify and take out the foreign cells it cant help but to take the other cancer cells with it since they are so mixed in with one another.
Now I am no scientist or researcher at all, so that may be a dumb idea with no scientific backing, and I am not advocating for people to try this on them self's, but figured I would throw the thought out their anyway. Plus the issue with that one doctor getting cancer from that operation and the organ transplant issue. So I guess the immune system doesn't always prevent it.
What are the chances you guys will cover the TP-53 gene and its role in tumor growth?
I could of sworn you already made a video about this.
In organ transplants you got something wrong. They usually look for a donor with the same MAJOR histocompatibility complex (since there are a certain amout of CMH types, that's what makes you "compatible"), otherwise they would need to knock out their immune systems forever. Instead it is the MINOR complex that they need to immunosupress for since that one is very rarely the same but it can induce "tolerance" (the immune system ignores it after a long period of exposition with a high dose) but they still try to find the most similar of course.
You say it can't then you say it can then you say it can't be contagious lol
So basically if you fall into a pool of toxic waste you get super powers but you don't but you do.
yeah, youtube rewind
For those who are interested:
The body itself doesn't reject organs on its own. It's the foreign immune cell (that hitch hiked from the organ donor) that presents auto antigens (from the donor) which the immune system reacts to. What. causes a systemic reaction against cells that present the same auto antigen (these are cells that belong to the donor organ). In a way it's the organ itself that causes the rejection.
Have you of Scishow ever read the researches of David Servan-Schreiber? I've read his book, called "Anticancer: a new way of life", and it says the cancer treatment goes far from doctors, and need to begin in our life style.
My first thought about the title: No, but you can throw it
1:10 I think the more important point here is that cancer cells, being locked up inside a person, almost never get a chance to spread to another person.