If you have unprotected sex(oral and anal) and when the guy ejaculates inside you, if he has cancer, can you get it?
2007-02-17 03:14:06 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Very unlikely.
Semen contains mostly one kind of cells, that is germ cells (spermatozoids; female germ cells are ovas). There are germ cell cancers, but the only one I've heard of is ovarian germ cell cancer, which is a very aggressive cancer occuring mostly in young women.
For a tumor to grow from semen you would have to actually get cancer cells from it (and for that it would need to be a germ cell cancer), and have a severely suppressed immune system (foreign tissue is very aggressively attacked by the immune system).
I would worry about getting a blood transfusion from somebody with active accute leukemia (those cells are frightening just looking at how fast they multiply; easy to imagine them overwhelming somebody's immune system), but not with semen from somebody with cancer.
2007-02-17 04:58:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cancer is caused normally by genetic mutations. However, medicine isn't perfect and there is always a first for everything. I wouldn't be worried about though because cancer cells are normally not in semen, except maybe if the guy has prostate cancer. I would ask your doctor if you're really worried about it. They are the ones with degrees in that area. It's what they went to school for, or ask an oncologist (specialist in cancer).
2007-02-17 04:54:59 · answer #2 · answered by Go Bruins 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, and specific. I say no by using fact there at the instant are not any properly-known varieties of maximum cancers that are contagious. yet, there are some viruses that are contagious that mutate cells and make cancerous cells! SO, no to the extremely maximum cancers, and specific to three viruses that reason maximum cancers!
2016-09-29 05:51:33 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably not.
As for the answer about cancer being grown in lab animals: the reason cancer can be grown in such a way is because the animals are usually genetically engineered to be "nude", basically, they have no immune system of their own, and are susceptible to foreign organisms growing in them.
I guess if you have some kind of severe immune deficiency, then it's possible cancer from another person can grow in you. But again, cancer is rarely found in semen, so again, the possibilities are remote for you.
2007-02-17 04:26:00 · answer #4 · answered by Cycman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not in the most general sense, no ... doing normal everyday things, including kissing or sex will not give anyone else cancer.
However, in lab animals, cancers are occasionally transplanted; if you take a tumor, or part of a tumor and place it in another organism, the tumor can continue growing there.
Not sure what happens to the animals, and if the cancer spreads there, or if the tumor just sits where it was put and continues to grow.
So in a non general everyday sense, you can transfer tumors between organisms. It's not not something that one would ever see or do in 'real life'
2007-02-17 03:32:01 · answer #5 · answered by grimsqeaker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, and yes. I say no in view that there are not any known types of melanoma which are contagious. But, there are some viruses that are contagious that mutate cells and make cancerous cells! SO, no to the genuine cancer, and yes to some viruses that cause melanoma!
2016-08-10 16:14:57 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO NO NO and I doubt you will ever get it Seriously it is genetic or environmental check with a Biology teacher
2007-02-17 03:38:39 · answer #7 · answered by hobo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, cancer isn't contageous, don't worry.
2007-02-17 03:22:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hahahahaha
you shouldn't be having sex if you have to ask this question.
2007-02-17 03:18:35 · answer #9 · answered by stretch 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I DON'T THINK SO - CANCER IS ANON CONTAGIOUS DISESE - DON'T WORRY!!
2007-02-17 03:26:57 · answer #10 · answered by Gugie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋