Can children with uterine cancer be contagious?

Is cervical cancer contagious? This is a question that almost all cervical cancer patients and their families are concerned about. For this question, the clear answer is that cervical cancer is not contagious. Cervical cancer is one of the common gynecological malignancies, and its incidence rate is second only to breast cancer, ranking second among female malignancies. So, can cervical cancer infect children?

Although most HPV infections are subclinical (asymptomatic), they can still be infected and spread. The most common outcome of cervical HPV infection is no obvious clinical manifestations, and HPV can only be detected in the short term. The vast majority of HPV infections will be automatically eliminated by the body's immunity. The average infection time for non-tumorigenic HPV is 8.2 months, and for tumorigenic HPV it is as long as 13.5 months. Therefore, most HPV infections are transient and temporary, and will automatically turn negative within 18 months, although some manifest as chronic infections. Only a very small number of women who continue to be infected with HPV will develop cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (cervical precancerous lesions) in their lifetime, and then develop cervical cancer. The average incubation period is also quite long, up to several years or more.

The connection between HPV (human papillomavirus) infection and cervical cancer was first proposed in the 1870s. After more than 20 years of research, scientists found that HPV DNA can be detected in cervical cancer, which is the highest detection percentage of human tumor pathogenic factors reported so far, and also proves the etiological connection between HPV and cervical cancer. Based on this discovery, scientists have opened up early detection of high-risk HPV infection, which has greatly promoted the prevention and early diagnosis of cervical cancer. The reminder of the connection between HPV infection and cervical cancer has contributed to the development of the first anti-cancer vaccine in history.