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Yes, I believe that's an excellent deduction.

Your English, by the way, is better than that of most native-speakers on this board. You just need to capitalize the names of languages (English, Spanish, French, etc.).

Pretty correct deduction, as it would only make sense you don't get cancer of your hair and nails. I'll have to investigate further on the teeth though. Teeth have both a nerve AND a blood supply, therefore not dead cells.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17196513

Carol, every nurse knows the skin is the largest organ.

I am more amazed that you've had every cancer that every poster on this board has ever had, except for, surprisingly prostate!

Looks Good, One Step Further, Is a Malignancy More Probable to Develop In Dividing Cells? E. g. Breast Cells Which Monthly Wax and Wane?

Hello:

Speed dog is right your teeth can get cancer in them from

the blood. It kills the nerves inside of the teeth and turns them

gray but this is only common to people with leukemia as well

as stage 4 cancer patiants that have undergone a lot of chemo.

The bad part is oral surgeons will not remove the teeth if you

have this history as it can cause you to bleed to death while

doing this procedure. I know first hand but you have blood flow

in your nail beds but it delivers air to the calcium in the nails

why you don't get cancer there I don't know I don't think there

is any one doing study on it either mabe they should.

As to the hair the part of our hair that is alive is the folicals as well

as the center of the hair. That is why we frequantly loose our hair

when they do chemo. And our skin is not a organ but we get

skin cancer because it if feed by blood.

I know first hand what it is to have the teeth turn color because

of cancer and my oral surgeon who is the best in LasVegas will

not remove them. They don't hurt but they don't look good either.

I wanted to get false teeth but got told no to dangerous at this

point.

The nerves in the center of your teeth is alive and that is what

keeps them white is healthy teeth.

Sorry speed dog that you never heard of it but it is rare.

I guess I am just a rare type of gal. But I have to be out of

chemo for 6 months to a year for me to safley get false teeth

if they try to remove them now it will spread to my jaw bone.

And my bones are so soft till my teeth break easly as do my

bones. And the bones take a long time to heal for me.

As to the hair I did some reserch back in 2004 cause I wanted

to know why chemo made my hair fall out again. So I went

back to my anatomy books and it showed the hair to the point

of what makes it a living part of our body. Thats why it grows.

The amout of calcium is what makes our nails soft or hard.

and lack of blood flow to the nail bed makes them a yellowish

color frequantly. These are from a anatomy book written in

1994 so there may new stuff out on it now. But the teeth I

know first hand.

Well the cancer spreed. I wish it did not spreed but thats cancer

it will eat what ever good red cells you have.

Sorry to correct the nurse, but teeth do have a blood supply in the pulp and should be "alive" if they are real teeth. Yet you are correct that there doesn't seem to be malignancy involving the pulp of teeth - that I have ever heard about. http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/anatomy/...

Of course a person with leukemia would have malignant cells circulating in the blood vessls of the pulp in teeth, but that would not be considered tooth cancer.

I see that "April" picked up on this too.

To have a malignancy, you need aberrant clones of living cells which do not respond to normal cellular control - they keep dividing eventually creating masses of tumor cells.

Congratulations on your excellent English.

From the British medical journal "Lancet" :

http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S14702...

Abstract

Common pathologies of the dental pulp differentiate between acute and chronic inflammatory states caused by caries or dental trauma. Inflammations of the dental pulp as a result of neoplastic alterations are generally considered non-existent. In fact, using the search phrase “dental pulp” combined with “sarcoma”, “carcinoma”, or “neoplasms” in PubMed when using the MeSH search mode yielded no reports on primary malignant neoplasms. However, a hand search yields clinical reports on pulpal tumours that were published over a century ago. In this Essay, the results of a hand search in historic published work are presented. Furthermore, deductive reflections are done on general tumour pathogenesis with respect to specific anatomical prerequisites of the dental pulp. Because of the restricted space in a tooth, tumour expansion will probably lead to the formation of irritation dentine by secondary odontoblasts and, subsequently, to a haemorrhage infarct of the pulp. One hypothesis states that a purported neoplasm of the dental pulp leads to a chronic appositive pulpitis and–sooner or later–will be treated likewise by root-canal treatment or extraction. Further research, including stem-cell studies, is recommended.

Panda had a good answer regarding tooth cancer 11 months ago.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=200808...

teeth hair and nails are dead and have no blood supply,unlike bones

yes, it's something like you have said.