Can you get cancer from eating or drinking after a cancer patient?, page 1
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reply posted on 1-9-2004 @ 06:29 AM by ArMaP
Cancer is not contagious because the cells are from that body, and they are made to function in the body. These cells are normal cell, with all the DNA of that person, that for some reason started multiplying without control.

RANT

Probably what happened to your mother was something similar to what happened to my father and tends to happen in the cases of prostate cancer.
What happens with prostate cancer is that the proximity of the prostate with the hip bones makes the cancer cells spread to the bones. If they reach the bones then the cancer cells may spread by the blood vessels and they tend to relocate more on some places than others.
In my father's case they relocated on the brain, and in the last 1 1/2 months he had difficulty walking, sometimes in talking and eating.

About that lump in your throat you should really see a doctor, and tell him the family history of diseases. It may be nothing special, but if you smoke or work or live in places with much smoke or dust, you should do make some tests.

The attitude of the doctors in your mothers case shows what I already heard, that here in Portugal all the health system is prepared to deal with cancer patients, and we have very good doctors (except mine, who is a jerk).

We should not be paranoid, but we should deny ignorance, so start by knowing if anything is wrong with you.

If you want, you can go to the
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy , they have lots of information, it was there that I learned all I know about medicine.


reply posted on 1-9-2004 @ 01:26 PM by Bleys
I'm apprehensive about posting this for fear some will misunderstand the relationship between some virus' and cancer. But in the interest of denying ignorance I think it's important.

Let me caveat my post by saying just because there may be a viral link this does not establish a casual contact link.

Cervical cancer in women has been linked to the HPV virus. There are hundred of HPV viruses that cause everything from warts to general infections. But in some women the HPV virus actually causes changes in the cell itself and can lead to cervical cancer.

There are is also an interesting study being conducted by Australian scientists showing a possible viral cause to some instances of breast cancer.
Breast Cancer study

This link contains a study in which men who are circumcised are less likely to contract and spread the HPV virus.

And then there is Cell Genesys This is a site I am currently reading. They are attempting to develop vaccines for Prostate, Lung, Pacreatic, Myeloma, and Leukemia cancers. I'm currently working on an article for the ignorancedenied site of ATS.


Cell Genesys' GVAX® cancer vaccines are comprised of whole tumor cells that have been genetically modified to secrete granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), a hormone that systemically activates the immune system to recognize and destroy cancer cells. The tumor cells are then lethally irradiated for safety.


I lost my Aunt last night after a 10 year battle with breast cancer. She tried every known treatment and fought it to the very end. The research that is currently being tested today didn't save her and may not be ready for us - but wouldn't it be wonderful if it could be developed in time for our children.


reply posted on 1-9-2004 @ 02:31 PM by RedBalloon
Found an interesting site... www.mercola.com...

Talk about how fungal infections are often misdiagnosed as cancer. Fungal infections are contagious.


Fungal infections not only can be extremely contagious, but they also go hand in hand with leukemia -- every oncologist knows this. And these infections are devastating: once a child who has become a bone marrow transplant recipient gets a "secondary" fungal infection, his chances of living, despite all the antifungals in the world, are only 20%, at best.
And then the unthinkable thought arises: what if all of these children didn't even have leukemia, but rather a fungal infection, just as this nurse did? If doctors, in the 21st century, could mistake a fungal infection for leukemia in this nurse, could the same fate have fallen upon these children?

It goes on to talk about how fungal infections might be a cause of leukemias.

It's feasable for viruses to cause various cancers as cancers are caused by mutations to our DNA that cause cells to continuously divide (in a nutshell). Chemicals, radiation, pollutants all can cause this damage to our DNA, why couldn't viruses? HPV is getting a lot of press lately and many links are shown. Too bad something like 80% of the adult population has some sort of HPV - many strains have no visible symptoms (aka warts).

Anyhow.. cancer effects OUR DNA, and not someone elses. That kind of mutation isn't contagious. Cancer is not a foreign body with its own DNA programmed to attack to survive, its a mutation of our own.

[edit on 1-9-2004 by RedBalloon]


reply posted on 1-9-2004 @ 02:45 PM by Soul Reaper
Originally posted by ThunderCloud
Cancer is a cellular disease that spreads through the entire victim's body, correct? So, cancer cells should be in all the types of cells in the victim's body, right? Including blood, saliva, etc.

So, if you eat or drink after someone who has cancer, is there a chance that you'll get the cancer too?



Hi Thundercloud, I'm not a physician but......I found this great website
about alternative therapies.

educate-yourself.org...

Don't believe in everything the medical establishment tells you, it is as
most everything now and day's based on the "almighty" fiat currency.
I read somewhere that cancer is caused by bacteria and or virus that
become extremely toxic due to a lack of oxygen in the body, thats why
smokers are so at risk.

They have even found bacteria that can live in a nuclear reactor!
If that is possible, then the above mentioned theory doesn't seem
so far fetched.
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