Is pituitary tumor contagious?

No matter what kind of disease we have, we are always worried about whether it is contagious. For the pituitary tumor patients we often see in our daily life, we also want to know whether we will be infected with pituitary tumor after contact with them. Let's take a look at the experts' introduction on whether we can be infected with pituitary tumor and whether pituitary tumor is contagious.

The concept of infection, in simple terms, is that a disease is transmitted from one person to another through some means. Infection must meet three conditions: source of infection, route of transmission and susceptible population, none of which can be missing. So will pituitary tumors be transmitted? Clinical data show that pituitary tumor patients themselves are not sources of infection. Experts have conducted such experiments, where cancerous tissue removed from cancer patients was directly implanted in another person, and it could not survive and grow. Although it is currently believed that the occurrence of certain cancers is related to certain viruses, such as cervical cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, and leukemia, it has not yet been confirmed that infection with certain viruses will definitely lead to certain cancers.

If many people in the same family suffer from pituitary tumors, it can only mean that pituitary tumors have a family genetic gene, especially astrocytoma (brain glioma) has a higher incidence in the same family. As for whether it is possible to be infected with pituitary tumors? It should be noted that if there is no pituitary tumor patient in the family, someone in the next generation or the next generation will inevitably suffer from pituitary tumors. Because there are many reasons for the formation of pituitary tumors, it is currently believed that the factors that induce pituitary tumors include: genetic factors, physical factors, chemical factors and tumorigenic viruses, etc.

At present, pituitary tumors are not listed as infectious diseases in the world, and patients are not isolated as infectious diseases. The incidence of tumors among medical staff in neurosurgery or oncology is not higher than that of the general population. Animal experiments have also proved that when cancerous animals and healthy animals are kept together for a long time, no infection is found after repeated observation and examination.

After reading the introduction about whether you can get pituitary tumors, you will know that pituitary tumors are not contagious, but they can be inherited. So for the health of our offspring, we should pay attention to the measures to prevent pituitary tumors in our daily lives. Only in this way can we and our offspring stay away from pituitary tumors.