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Is leukemia ever contagious?
12 doctors weighed in across 8 answers
No: Cancer is not a contagious disease.
Answered 9/9/2011
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No: Leukemias are caused by changes in the genes, not by viruses, except in a very unusual form of acute leukemia almost never seen in the USA.
Answered 11/30/2014
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No: Leukemia is a cancer of the blood-forming tissues usually of the bone marrow and lymphatic system.
Answered 1/2/2018
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No: Leukemia cannot be transferred from one person to another.
Answered 9/28/2016
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No: Human acute leukemia is not contageous.
Answered 9/21/2012
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No: It is not contagious but in some instances it could be inherited.
Answered 9/21/2012
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No: In humans we have not demonstrated contagiousness in the usual sense of the term. In other animal species we are aware of several types of leukemia that are transmitted by specific leukemia viruses- usually species specific.
Answered 7/23/2019
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No: Leukemia is a type of cancer (blood/bone marrow cancer) and does not spread from person to person. Some cancers have an association with infectious agents, one of the most well known ones being the epstein-barr virus (ebv) but the presence of the virus is not enough to cause cancer; other factors need to be present.
Answered 4/10/2014
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