癌会不会传染呢?这是群众和癌症病人家属普遍关心的问题。到目前为止,虽然癌症的根本原因还未完全弄清楚,但经过许多学者的研究和实验观察,认为癌症不会传染,所以不是传染病。 例如,有人曾将一个健康的小鼠与一群患癌的小鼠放在一起饲养,经过很长的时间,并没有发现这个健康小鼠染上癌症。人类也一样,在肿瘤医院里,没有发现过同住一间病房的癌症病人有互相传染的现象,在医院里与病人密切接触的医生、护士、工友,也没有听说过被传染了癌症。事实上,曾有人作过调查,从事肿瘤防治的医务人员和研究人员,他们的癌 Will cancer be contagious? This is a common concern of the families and the families of cancer patients. So far, although the underlying causes of cancer have not yet been fully understood, many scholars have studied and observed that cancer is not contagious and therefore not an infectious disease. For example, someone once kept a healthy mouse together with a group of cancer-bearing mice. After a long period of time, it was not found that this healthy mouse had cancer. The same is true of humans. In cancer hospitals, no cancer patients living in a ward have been found to be infected. Physicians, nurses, and workers who are in close contact with patients in hospitals have never heard of being infected with cancer. In fact, there have been investigations conducted by medical personnel and researchers involved in cancer prevention and control, and their cancers.