Contagious: Cancer
| About contagion: Contagion and contagiousness refers to how easily the spread of Cancer is possible from one person to another. Other words for contagion include "infection", "infectiousness", "transmission" or "transmissability". Contagiousness has nothing to do with genetics or inheriting diseases from parents. For an overview of contagion, see Introduction to Contagion. |
Contagion discussion:
And although
being infected with certain viruses may increase the risk of
some types of cancer, cancer is not contagious; no one can
"catch" cancer from another person.1
Footnotes:
1. excerpt from What You Need To Know About Cancer - An Overview: NCI
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