my friend who 14 has cancer in her knee and she says her doctors aways ask her if she ever fell on it
2007-08-10 08:26:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Other - Health
I don't think so, but I am not a doctor.
Cancer usually occurs when some foreign chemical comes in contact with the area. Smokers inhale a ton of glop, for example, and some develop lung cancer. Some other chemicals tend to cause cancers in certain other organs.
Your friend's doctor may have seen evidence of another injury, and was asking about that, though. Or he may think that the cancer has weakened the bones of the knee, and may be asking to see if there was a chance that she injured it, and he needs to xray her knee to check for damage.
2007-08-10 08:32:45 · answer #1 · answered by Ralfcoder 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. Cancer is caused by cells in your body replicating wrong, not by trauma. They're probably asking because if she fell on it, it might break off some of the cancer and let it get into her bloodstream and spread to other areas of her body.
2007-08-10 15:31:08 · answer #2 · answered by demimonde00 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cancer can become more likely in areas of trauma. Anywhere where the cells are under significant stress, those areas are under greater risk of developing cancer. This stress can be physical (impact, friction, etc.), chemical, radiological, etc. So in brief...no, you can't get cancer by falling down. But it could put you at greater risk of cancer. Any time we mistreat our bodies, we put ourselves at greater risk of cancer.
2007-08-10 15:45:37 · answer #3 · answered by Sancho 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sometimes if you have a bad fall, you can fracture a bone, and every now and then a tumor grows in the that fracture.
2007-08-10 15:29:59 · answer #4 · answered by popcorn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋