: Is it possible to deliberately get cancer? Is it possible to deliberately get cancer? Maybe injecting a malignant tumor? I'm asking this just out of curiosity.

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Yes

A decent share of radiation will do the trick for you, as both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also physicists experimenting with the newly found radiation have shown.

There even is a unit (sievert) which measures how cancerous a dose of radiation is. One sievert is equivalent to a 5,5% chance of cancer.

Relevant XKCD for how what radiation has how much sievert:

Furthermore, cancer can be transplanted. This is an issue that has been subject to quite a few conferences.

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