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Can you get tonsillitis from kissing someone with tonsil cancer?

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Dr. Stephen Camachoanswered

Family Medicine 25 years experience

Tonsillitis : Tonsillitis comes from an infection with a virus or bacteria, not cancer. Cancer is not a communicable disease.

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Dr. Eyas Othmananswered

ENT and Head and Neck Surgery 29 years experience

No: No ther is no relation between throat cancer and throt infection.

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I get frequent tonsilitis. Right now i dont have tonsilitis but my tonsils are not the same size. No other symptoms other than tonsil stones. Should i be worried for tonsil cancer?

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Difference between chronic tonsillitis and tonsil cancer?

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1 tonsil swollen for about 6 months now both are swollen with 2 or 3 white spots on 1 of them. Tonsillitis or cancer?

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I have chronic tonsillitis and possibly oral HPV -16(performed oral sex) will it turn tonsil cancer in the future?My pap smear is normal

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