Is breast cancer contagious?

Is breast cancer contagious? Breast cancer currently troubles many female friends. The occurrence of this disease brings great pain to patients and seriously affects their normal life. Many patients worry that the disease is contagious. In fact, this worry is unnecessary. The disease is not contagious, so everyone can rest assured.

Breast cancer is a common malignant tumor. It is not contagious, so the family members of patients can take care of the patients without worry. Breast cancer is not an infectious agent. It will not be transmitted from one patient to another, and it will not spread on a large scale. Therefore, the international medical community has not listed breast cancer as an infectious disease, and has not taken any isolation measures. Many experts have conducted long-term observations on tumor sanatoriums and have not found direct infection between cancer patients and non-cancer patients who have lived in the same ward for a long time. At the same time, no medical staff who have been caring for cancer patients for a long time have been infected. Even doctors who pricked their fingers when treating patients and had blood contact were not infected. Based on this, it can be more certain that breast cancer is absolutely not contagious.

Some people have raised the question: Is breastfeeding a transmission route for breast cancer virus? But so far this question has not been confirmed by medical experts. However, there are many data showing that the incidence of breast cancer is higher in countries where breastfeeding is reduced. Therefore, it can only be said that the virus may be a cause of breast cancer symptoms, but it cannot fundamentally prove that breastfeeding can transmit breast cancer. Even if the patient's cancer cells are directly implanted, it is difficult for them to survive in another person's body, because the human body has a strong immune rejection function, and anything from the outside world is difficult to be integrated and absorbed. Therefore, once another person's cancer cells enter the body, they will be killed without reservation.

It is certain that breast cancer is not contagious. However, women should pay attention to prevention in their daily lives. They can do self-examinations or go to the hospital for regular check-ups to keep abreast of breast changes and actively prevent breast cancer.
From the above introduction, we know that breast cancer is not contagious, so we can all rest assured, give enough respect to patients with this disease, help them receive timely treatment, and get out of the pain brought by the disease in time!