Are patients with advanced liver cancer contagious? You need to know these common sense

The infectiousness of patients with advanced liver cancer has always been a puzzle for everyone. So, are patients with advanced liver cancer contagious?

Liver cancer patients themselves are not contagious, nor will they transmit liver cancer to others. From the perspective of the pathogenesis of liver cancer, liver cancer is the result of malignant transformation and abnormal proliferation of the patient's own cells. Without the discharge of pathogens, it will not pose a threat or harm to the surrounding people. In other words, it does not have the conditions required for infection. Therefore, patients with advanced liver cancer are not contagious.

In addition, whether patients with advanced liver cancer are contagious, from the perspective of the cause of liver cancer, clinically liver cancer mostly develops from hepatitis B and cirrhosis, and hepatitis B can be transmitted through blood, sexual contact, mother-to-child vertical transmission, etc. Liver cancer patients with active hepatitis are contagious to a certain extent, but because it is the hepatitis B virus that is transmitted rather than liver cancer, liver cancer and hepatitis cannot be confused and mistakenly believed to be the source of infection. Therefore, liver cancer patients themselves are not contagious, and it is very necessary to give patients spiritual comfort and care.

Liver cancer itself is not an infectious disease, so family members and friends of patients with advanced liver cancer do not need to worry about infection. The key is to give more care, build up the confidence and courage of liver cancer patients to fight the disease, and actively cooperate with treatment.