Serious question. Please only answer this if you know for sure. Thanks.
2006-07-10 05:43:44 · 13 answers · asked by Gennie Goose 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
No, there have been no cases of contracting a cancer through blood transfusions. See link below for risks of blood transfusions.
2006-07-10 05:52:24 · answer #1 · answered by Answer King 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO, Any kind of disease is not tranferable to another human body by having a blood transfusion. Labs that get the donated blood screen and reject blood that might make someone sick. Cancer is hereditary, everyone has cancer sells in their body..it is a matter if whether or not those specific cells are 'activated' and if someone will actually get cancer...
And yes a person who has had cancer can donate blood, I would
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2006-07-11 16:23:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - if someone else's cancer cells were introduced into your body via transfusion, your immune system would attack and kill the cells.
Cancer patients can't donate blood because of the drugs that they must take, and because of their health status. But even is someone unknowingly had cancer and still donated, your risk of getting cancer from their blood is absolute zero.
2006-07-10 18:34:44 · answer #3 · answered by katestone522 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Cancer is not contagious. But cancer patients cannot donate blood because of the treatments they go through and it would not be safe for the person with cancer to give blood. They are already anemic as it is.
2006-07-10 15:16:03 · answer #4 · answered by murph_ltt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not, cancer is presented soley through the uninhibited division of your own body cells, not by those of another person. However, when laboratory animals are studied and researched for cancer purposed, they are often implanted with cancer cells. Most neoplasms though are caused by mutations in your chromosomes.
2006-07-10 14:57:19 · answer #5 · answered by Erik C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no cancer isnt transferable through blood transfusions
2006-07-10 12:49:03 · answer #6 · answered by dumplingmuffin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so because I had cancer and I have been able to donate blood & they say they are using my blood. I was concerned that the reciver would get it but they said no. they'd died without the blood.
2006-07-10 20:00:55 · answer #7 · answered by SweetNurse 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cancer is noncommunicable. you can't just transfer it to another person. your body would notice the cancerous cells, most likely. anyway, people who give blood are tested for diseases first,(AIDS, Anemia, etc.) diseased blood gets tossed, so it's probably pretty uncommon to receive cancerous blood.
2006-07-10 12:54:12 · answer #8 · answered by Paigey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eric is correct, cancer is not an "infectious disease". Trust me, if it were, we'd all be dead already!
It is a seroius enough "plague" without the spectre of communicability!
Why would you ask such a silly question?
2006-07-10 15:01:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you have cancer you can't give blood. BTW, many cancers don't involve the blood, liver, lungs, pancreas, whatever...nothing to do with the blood.
2006-07-10 12:52:15 · answer #10 · answered by Chatty 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋