Is it permissible to keep the placenta and amniotic sac for use in cancer treatment?
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It is permissible to keep the placenta for treating cancer and removing facial wrinkles if its benefit is proven. The rule "whatever is severed from a living being is dead" does not apply to it, because the deceased human is pure. If it has no benefit, then its status is like that of nails and hair.
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