Suspected Lung Cancer Can be Transmitted By Goat

Posted in category: Cancer Therapy at: December 19, 2011 by admin

Because it is more associated with environmental and lifestyle factors, cancer is usually not categorized as an infectious disease. But according to the study, goats are believed to transmit the type of rare cancer that attacks the lungs.

Research conducted by scientists from the Louis Pradel Hospital in France that showed that people who are often involved in contact with goats more susceptible to pneumonic-type adenocarcinoma (P-ADC). This disease is a type of lung cancer is quite rare.

“Previously, scientists have found there are many similarities between lung cancer P-ADC with a contagious viral infection in goats,” said Nicolas Girard, who led the study, as quoted from Indiavision, Monday (26/9/2011).

Departing from the allegations, Girard and his colleagues perform a search to see the possibility of transmission to humans. If indeed there is a risk of transmission, then it should be accompanied by an increase risk of P-ADC to the one who is frequently involved contact with the goat.

In that study, involving 44 patients Girard P-ADC lung cancer and 132 healthy participants. The entire risk factors that have observed the participants, including family history, smoking habits and how often contact with the goat.

Observations showed that the contact with goats associated with risk of lung cancer in particular P-ADC. Participants who throughout his life always in touch with the goat had a risk five times higher for the taxable P-ADC compared other types of lung cancer.

Different types of lung cancer in general, P-ADC lung cancer is rarely associated with cigarette smoke. The exact cause is not yet known, but the results of this study indicate that the viral infection transmitted by goats could be one cause.