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In reply to the discussion: Venezuela to probe Chavez cancer poisoning accusation [View all]Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)I'm not talking about carcinogens in the environmental incidental sense, where exposure is limited. Even smoking falls into that category.
I'm talking about a cocktail of potent tumor-inducing viruses injected directly into somebody's body.
Athymic rodents are used in research because quick results are necessary. A rodent has a short lifespan relative to a human. So using nude mice just speeds up the process. That's not to say that the same injection in normal rodents wouldn't also cause cancer if given enough time.
I'm not saying that the injection results in instantaneous cancer. It obviously takes years to develop, no matter the cause.
I'm saying you can certainly boost the odds tremendously of someone getting cancer by injecting them with a potent cocktail of tumor-inducing agents.
That is all I am saying.
As for determining cause, if biopsy were conducted and viral genome were found and sequenced, and found to contain sequences not found in nature, ie engineered, well, that might be some sort of info that could be processed.