Can lymphoma tumors be contagious after they rupture?

Will lymphoma be contagious after it ruptures? The answer is that lymphoma is not contagious. In simple terms, contagion means that a disease is transmitted from one person to another through some means. Contagion must meet three conditions: the source of infection, the route of transmission, and the susceptible population. Clinical data prove that cancer patients themselves are not the source of infection.

Experts have conducted experiments in which cancerous tissues taken from cancer patients were directly implanted in another person and could not survive and grow. Although it is currently believed that the occurrence of certain cancers is related to certain viruses, such as cervical cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, and leukemia, it has not yet been confirmed that infection with certain viruses will definitely lead to certain cancers.

Cancer cells in the patient's body are a group of abnormal cells that have lost control and grow in an invasive manner. They not only destroy adjacent normal tissues, but can also spread to all parts of the body through lymphatics and blood circulation, absorb a large amount of nutrients, grow and proliferate rapidly, and cause systemic failure of the patient until death.

Although cancer cells can spread or metastasize everywhere in the patient's body, they will not be transmitted from one person to another like bacteria and viruses. To oneself, other people's cancer cells are a kind of foreign body, and the body destroys cancer cells through its powerful immune rejection ability. Therefore, other people's cancer cells cannot survive in one's body. Is lymphoma contagious?

Since lymphoma is not contagious, can it be inherited? We say that infection and inheritance are two completely different medical concepts. The former is an infectious disease caused by bacteria or viruses, such as tuberculosis, hepatitis, etc.; the latter is due to blood ties, causing multiple people in the family to suffer from the same disease.

If one of the parents has a certain type of cancer, their children are more likely to have the same type of cancer, and have a clear family history of cancer. The survey results show that the incidence of cancer patients is higher in blood relatives than in non-blood relatives, and higher in close relatives than in distant relatives. There is no significant difference between paternal and maternal relatives, indicating that the incidence of cancer is related to genetic factors. It has been confirmed that several tumors such as retinoblastoma, colon polyposis syndrome, nephroblastoma, neuroblastoma, etc. have a significant genetic tendency.

Other cancers related to heredity include: esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer, kidney cancer, colon cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, etc. Regular examinations and key protective measures for people with a family history of lymphoma are an effective preventive method, which has important clinical significance for the early detection, diagnosis and treatment of lymphoma.