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Assertion : Cancer is a non-infectious disease.
Reason : Cancer impairs normal body activities only for few days.

A

If both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.

B

If both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion.

C

If assertion is true but reason is false.

D

If both assertion and reason are false.

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The correct Answer is:
C
Cancer is a non-infectious disease as it does not spread from a diseased person to healthy person, but it is a chronic disease because it has drastic long term effects on patient.s health.
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