Is pancreatic cancer contagious through the oral cavity?

In reality, "talking about cancer is scary" is a true reflection of people's fear of cancer. In people's conventional thinking, cancer is not only difficult to treat and endangers the patient's life, but also contagious. Infectious diseases are generally transmitted to others through oral droplets or other means. In this case, can pancreatic cancer be transmitted through the mouth? Let's take a look at it together!

Pancreatic cancer is not contagious through the oral cavity. However, the huge invisible harm caused by pancreatic cancer will still cause great harm to our normal life. Pancreatic cancer is also a malignant change of cells, so it is impossible for pancreatic cancer to be contagious through the oral cavity.

After decades of hard work, the surgical resection rate of pancreatic cancer has increased, and the surgical mortality rate has significantly decreased. However, the incidence of pancreatic cancer is still on the rise worldwide, and the total mortality rate remains high. Therefore, pancreatic cancer is called the "king of kings" and is regarded by the international surgical community as the "stubborn fortress of the 21st century."

It is reported that pancreatic cancer is generally related to lifestyle and diet. For example, alcoholism, drinking too much strong coffee, eating high-fat, high-animal protein foods and smoking are considered to be the main causes of pancreatic cancer. In addition, patients with diabetes and chronic pancreatitis are more likely to be induced than the general population. However, pancreatic cancer is not contagious!

Although pancreatic cancer tumor 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 matter, and the body can destroy other people's cancer cells through its powerful immune rejection ability. Therefore, it can be seen that pancreatic cancer is also a malignant change of cells, so pancreatic cancer transmission is impossible.

The first choice of treatment for pancreatic cancer is surgical resection, but the resection rate is low because most cases cannot be detected early, about 5-15%. Chemotherapy is an important part of comprehensive treatment. The more effective commonly used drugs include Gemcitabine, 5-fu, mitomycin, epirubicin, cyclophosphamide, carboplatin, etc. Radiotherapy alone can improve the patient's clinical symptoms, especially abdominal pain and back pain, but it has limited effect on prolonging the survival time of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer.

In summary, oral infection of pancreatic cancer is impossible. Pancreatic cancer is a cancer, not an infectious disease!