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Can you get tonsillitis from kissing someone with tonsil cancer?
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Tonsillitis : Tonsillitis comes from an infection with a virus or bacteria, not cancer. Cancer is not a communicable disease.
Answered 4/6/2015
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No: No ther is no relation between throat cancer and throt infection.
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