2007-10-15 03:38:38 · 7 answers · asked by Jack B 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Cancer is not contagious.
Contagious disease means there's a virus or bacteria (basically a foreign microorganism) multiplying in a host's body and then being passed around to other people who come in contact with the sick person.
Cancer is not a foreign microorganism. It means your own body's cells, affected maybe by pollution, environmental factors...start to malfunction. Usually, cells multiply to replace old ones...but sometimes they start to multiply abnormally -forming tumors.
Anyway..cancer is treatable now...
2007-10-16 09:42:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cancer is not contagious, at all. I still donate blood and I am a 10 year cancer survivor.
2007-10-15 05:11:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cancer isn't contagious - it's an internal mutation of dna that causes cells to go crazy and not stop growing. You can't "catch" cancer from anyone, so they're really quite different.
2007-10-15 03:41:12 · answer #3 · answered by Ellenaj 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, viruses and bacterias are living organisms that invade your body. They can be spread through contact with objects, through air, sexually, in water, etc.
Cancers are the mutations of cells in our own bodies. For every cancer there are different reasons, which is part of why it is so hard to treat.
Some cancers are hereditary, some cancers are caused by viruses (like HPV cervical cancer), some are caused by carcinogens like smoking, some are caused by the immune system attacking itself like leukemia.... and the list goes on. But the main answer is, cancer is normal cells gone bad and multiplying. It is not something you can "catch" or that "spreads" like viruses or bacterias from one person to another.
Cancers also do not heal on their own. The main way we treat cancer is to cut it out, or kill the bad cells along with healthy cells through chemotherapy. We don't yet know how to just get rid of the bad cells, so we poison or irradiate everything around the bad cells. In the case of leukemia, bone marrow transplants are often performed because the cancer is in the blood, and bone marrow creates healthy blood.
2007-10-15 03:48:58 · answer #4 · answered by tmerion 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cancer in itself is not contagious.
2007-10-15 05:19:14 · answer #5 · answered by Simmi 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cancer is not contagious.
2007-10-15 03:41:44 · answer #6 · answered by boworl 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its not normally contagious. It rarely involves bacteria or viruses or other microorganisms.
2007-10-15 03:46:36 · answer #7 · answered by Sciman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋