Is bowel cancer contagious through feces?

Nowadays, more and more people are suffering from colorectal cancer. As a malignant tumor disease, it makes patients suffer from pain for a long time, which is very painful. Many people are worried that they will be infected if they come into contact with colorectal cancer patients, so they are unwilling to get close to patients, which brings psychological shadows to patients and also affects the treatment of the disease. So, is colorectal cancer feces contagious? Let's take a look at the relevant analysis of experts.

Is bowel cancer contagious?

Cancer is a group of abnormal cells that grow out of control and in an invasive manner. It not only destroys adjacent normal tissues, but can also spread to all parts of the body through the lymphatic system and blood circulation, and absorb a large amount of nutrients, grow and proliferate rapidly, causing the patient's systemic failure and even 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 can destroy other people's cancer cells through its powerful immune rejection ability. Therefore, it can be seen that colon cancer is also a malignant change of cells, so it is impossible for colon cancer to be transmitted.

To understand whether advanced colorectal cancer is contagious, we must first understand whether it is an infectious disease and whether it is contagious. This question was raised a long time ago, and a lot of observations and studies have been conducted. People have done experiments such as putting animals with cancer and healthy animals together, and after a long period of observation, no direct contagion was found.

In hospitals, different types of cancer patients live in the same ward for a long time; cancer patients and non-cancer patients live in the same ward for a long time, and there is no direct infection. Medical staff have long-term contact with cancer patients, and their cancer incidence rate has not increased. A cancer patient lives with his family for a long time, and there is no infection. Based on this, it can be considered that cancer is generally not contagious.

Some people have suggested that intestinal cancer is an infectious disease of the digestive system. The answer to the question of whether advanced intestinal cancer is contagious is yes, but it has not been confirmed so far. Therefore, we can only say that viruses may be one of the causes of intestinal cancer. It has not been confirmed whether cancer cells can survive after contact with other people's skin and digestive tract. Even if cancer cells from one animal are implanted in the tissues of another animal, it is difficult to cause cancer in the other animal.

Is advanced colorectal cancer contagious? The answer is no. If there are colorectal cancer patients around us, we should give more care and understanding.

It is reported that the incidence of colorectal cancer is generally related to lifestyle and diet, such as excessive drinking, drinking too much strong coffee, eating high-fat, high-animal protein foods and smoking, which are all considered to be the main causes of colorectal cancer. In addition, patients with diabetes and chronic colitis are more likely to develop colorectal cancer than the general population.