Is liver cancer contagious

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Is liver cancer contagious? After hepatectomy, it has developed into liver metastasis. Patients with this disease should be treated as soon as possible. Now I will tell you whether liver cancer is contagious.

Is liver cancer contagious

Therefore, there is no threat to the patients with advanced liver cancer due to the infectious agent itself. First, it will not cause malignant transformation of the surrounding liver cancer cells.

Second: if liver cancer is accompanied by active hepatitis, it is infectious, but the cause of infection is viral hepatitis rather than liver cancer. Therefore, liver cancer cannot be considered as an infectious disease.

Third: liver cancer itself is not directly infectious, it is certain that the family members and friends of patients with advanced liver cancer should give more care, so that they can establish confidence and courage in life and fight against the disease, and there is no need to worry about the infectious problem.

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Liver cancer is not contagious. Some liver cancer patients may have jaundice, which will make people around them feel nervous and worried about being infected. In fact, these concerns are unnecessary, because most jaundice in patients with liver cancer is caused by liver function damage or bile duct compression. It is not acute icteric hepatitis and will not be infectious.