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Would it be possible to just inject salt into a cancer cell, so it stops making more cells and then just remove the tumor?
Question Date: 2013-01-27
Answer 1:

Injecting salt into a cell will poison it and kill it. However, salt will dissolve into the blood stream of an animal and potentially cause more harm elsewhere.



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