Can oral cancer spread through touch?

A healthy person cannot “catch” cancer from someone who has it. There is no evidence that close contact or things like sex, kissing, touching, sharing meals, or breathing the same air can spread cancer from one person to another. Cancer cells from one person are generally unable to live in the body of another healthy person. read more

Oral cancer are generally not contagious. But Human papilloma virus can transmit sexually. It causes cancer in penis, anus, vagina. But HPV infected individuals can infect other individuals with whom they are sexually active. This HPV cancers can spread to oral cavity, throat through sexual transmission via oral sex. read more