MICROANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -You cannot “catch” cancer from someone else. Close contact or things like sex, kissing, touching, sharing meals, or breathing the same air cannot spread cancer. Cancer cells from someone with cancer are not able to live in the body of another healthy person.

Detailed explanation-2: -Yes, cancer is due to genetic changes, but that doesn’t generally mean it’s inherited. “We see a huge amount of confusion about this, ‘’ says Katherine Nathanson, MD, Associate Professor of Genetics at Penn Medicine. “There is an inherited variation in different genes, which can lead to cancer that runs in families.

Detailed explanation-3: -A benign tumor means the tumor can grow but will not spread. Some types of cancer do not form a tumor. These include leukemias, most types of lymphoma, and myeloma.