Is liver disease contagious? Is liver cancer contagious?

Liver cancer is a serious malignant tumor. The number of deaths from liver cancer continues to rise every year, so it is very important to treat liver cancer reasonably. Many patients have questions about choosing the right method. Some liver diseases are contagious. So is liver cancer contagious?

Liver disease is contagious, so is liver cancer contagious?

1. The so-called infection. Simply put, it is a disease that spreads from one person to another through some means. Infection must meet three conditions: the source of infection, the route of transmission and the susceptible population. None of the three can be missing.

2. Clinical data have proved that cancer patients themselves are not the source of infection. Experts have conducted experiments in which cancer tissue removed from a cancer patient was directly implanted in another person and failed to survive and grow, although it is currently believed that the occurrence of certain cancers is related to certain viruses.

3. When any cancer reaches the advanced stage, it will metastasize to other organs and cause the organ's function failure and gradually lead to death. Liver cancer is no exception. However, advanced liver cancer is life-threatening before metastasis to other adjacent organs occurs. This is mainly because more than 85% of liver cancers originate from the liver based on hepatitis B cirrhosis.

4. Therefore, in the late stage, liver cancer not only invades normal liver cells, causing liver failure of the original cirrhosis, such as jaundice, ascites and hepatic encephalopathy (hepatic coma), but also some fatal complications. If the esophageal varicose veins rupture and bleed, it will cause liver failure and death.

Everyone knows that liver cancer is not contagious and will not cause other harm. However, people with liver cancer should also pay attention to choosing treatment methods and receive timely and effective treatment to avoid being killed so that they can live a healthy life.