• Question: What colour is cancer?

    Asked by issiphee1 to Gioia, Iain, Jo, Leo, Mariam on 21 Jun 2010 in Categories: . This question was also asked by bob3.
    • Photo: Joanna Watson

      Joanna Watson answered on 17 Jun 2010:

      That depends a lot on what kind of cell (i.e. exactly where in the body) the cancer started from.

    • Photo: Mariam Orme

      Mariam Orme answered on 21 Jun 2010:

      If you remove a tumour, it looks a bit like a lump of meat. So the answer is that cancer is a pinky-red colour.

Comments

  • Photo: issiphee1

    issiphee1 commented on :

    ok, so what colour would skin cancer be?

  • Photo: Jo

    Jo commented on :

    Ahhh – that’s a good question. Skin cancer can be lots of different colours. Sometimes it might be really dark – like the colour of moles or even darker, and sometimes it can be very pale or like the colour inside a cut. And sometimes it will be exactly the same colour the normal skin is.

  • Photo: Mariam

    Mariam commented on :

    Good point Jo, not all tumours look the same. In fact, isiphee1, there are even some non-cancerous tumours that look like teeth or hair or bones – basically the tumour-forming cells have got confused and turned into something completely innapropriate!