Is liver cancer contagious

Is liver cancer contagious? This is a question that troubles many people. Because viral hepatitis that we are all familiar with, such as hepatitis B, is highly contagious, people also have a great fear of liver cancer. But is liver cancer contagious?

Let's start with the pathogenesis of liver cancer. Liver cancer is a disease caused by the malignant transformation and abnormal proliferation of human cells. There is no pathogen excretion, so it is not contagious. Moreover, studies have shown that people who have close contact with cancer patients are no more likely to develop liver cancer than those who have not. Liver cancer mostly occurs on the basis of hepatitis B. Because hepatitis B can be transmitted through close contact, people who have close contact with hepatitis B can be vaccinated with hepatitis B vaccine to prevent the infection of hepatitis B, which can also prevent liver cancer in a certain sense.

Even in the late stage of liver cancer, it is not contagious. In the late stage of liver cancer, it will only spread and metastasize to the patient himself, and it is not contagious to the people around him. Disease transmission requires three conditions: source of infection, transmission path, and susceptible group. Liver cancer is the malignant growth of the patient's own cells and is not a source of infection, so late stage liver cancer is not contagious.

Through the above description, everyone should be able to be sure that liver cancer is not contagious, so we should not be prejudiced against liver cancer patients, which can easily cause adverse psychological effects on liver cancer patients.