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Can the flu give you lung cancer?
I heard that some viruses can give you cancer, is it true? And can I get lung cancer from the flu?
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Answers (2) to: "Can the flu give you lung cancer?"
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No, you are right that some viruses can inflict cancer (mainly because they enter the cell and change the genome) but the flu is not one of them. A good example for a virus that can do so- Human Papiloma Virus. It's considered as one of the main causes of cervix cancer.
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First of all- viruses don't "spread" cancer- they cause is. Second – there are very few viruses known to man that can cause cancer and the Flu is not one of them. Some viruses can insert their genetic material inside our infected cells genome, and sometimes they insert it in the middle of an important gene that helps us prevent cancer. When it does so it stops our cell defense system against cancer and cancer can evolve.
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