Can trees and other plants have cancer?

Can trees and other plants have cancer?

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There's a disease in plants called crown gall, which resembles cancer in that it causes uncontrolled division of cells. But not all plants get this disease, and it's caused by a bacterium, so I think you can't really call it cancer.

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