Will cancer continue to grow if placed into a second healthy person, or will their immune system kill it?
2006-10-21 13:12:49 · 5 answers · asked by clearwatervike 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
anyone with cancer cant donate blood or organs , so no it cant be transplanted
2006-10-21 21:55:52 · answer #1 · answered by sindi 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the situation. You see, you have a contradiction in your question because, technically, doctors don't put transplants into healthy persons. You're getting the transplant because you're not well!
If you mean that say, someone dies and their liver is transplanted into someone else who needed a liver, then odds are that yes it will continue to grow in the liver because the person getting the transplant is not a "healthy" person.
On the other hand, if an otherwise healthy person has a bad burn and they get a skin graft from someone else, and the burn wasn't bad enough to severely compromise their immune system, but the skin had the beginnings of skin cancer, then the skin cancer might stop.
2006-10-21 20:29:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anyone receiving an organ transplant has to be on immunosuppression medications for the rest of their life since their body will always recognize the new organ(s) as foreign matter and try to fight it. Accordingly, if there did happen to be cancer in a donated organ the cancer would continue to grow in the transplant recipient.
2006-10-21 22:42:13 · answer #3 · answered by Newlungs2004 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cancer is defined as an abnormal mass of tissue the growth of which exceeds and is uncoordinated with that of the normal tissue and persists in the same excessive manner after the cessation of the stimuli that evoked the change.
so by that cancer is not a problem on its own but there is a defect in the control of the growth of cells which is usually done by a DNA repair mechanisms so if cancer was transplanted accidentally and i don't think that can happen but if then the body of the person who got the transplant will control that growth and most probabliy thats person would not have cancer becuse he does not have any genetic mutation affecting his DNA repair mechanism
2006-10-21 21:39:05 · answer #4 · answered by chocolataya_rose_84 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Odds are it'll keep growing. However, there's literally no chance of that ever happening thanks to modern aspetic and sterilization techniques.
2006-10-21 20:42:44 · answer #5 · answered by J 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋