Is tuberculous lung cancer contagious

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My grandfather has been coughing. It seems that he has an old problem. He has never been cured. Recently, he became serious. Later, he went to the hospital and was diagnosed with lung cancer. The doctor said it was tuberculous lung cancer. Today, let me share with you whether tuberculosis lung cancer will be infectious.

Is tuberculous lung cancer contagious

First: lung cancer is a common lung cancer, the vast majority of lung cancer originated from bronchial mucosa epithelium, early often irritating cough, sputum with blood and other respiratory symptoms, almost all lung cancer patients with the onset of smoking, smoking is extremely acidic substances, easily lead to acidification, acidic constitution easy to induce cancer. In fact, lung cancer is not contagious.

Second, there are four ways for cancer cells to metastasize, namely, direct spread, lymphatic metastasis, hematogenous metastasis and implantation metastasis, which will not be transmitted by other ways. In general, it will not be infected by normal skin contact. However, when the skin is damaged, the cancer cells will be planted. In this way, the cancer cells will metastasize rather than infect others.

Third: lung cancer patients will not infect others. The spread of the disease needs to have three conditions, so the spread of lung cancer patients will not be established, there will be no infection. Tuberculosis is a kind of infectious disease. Patients with tuberculosis are called open tuberculosis when their sputum is positive, which is infectious.

matters needing attention

When pulmonary tuberculosis and lung cancer coexist, the existence of lung cancer is often ignored due to the presence of tuberculosis lesions or the detection of tuberculosis bacilli in sputum cytology. If pulmonary tuberculosis patients have similar situations, they should be highly alert to the possibility of lung cancer.