Cancers happen anywhere in our human body....in bones, blood and all other organs except the heart, blood vessels and 'dead' parts as in hairs and nails......
2006-10-22 08:06:45 · 4 answers · asked by mokiesaykuang 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
This is not true as I know people from Sarcoma Alliance who have Angiosarcoma. They have reported tumors in their heart.
"Angiosarcomas represent 1% of all sarcomas. One-third of the cases occur on the skin, one-fourth of the cases occur in the soft tissue or organs such as breast, liver, heart and lungs."
I believe that the only cell in the human body that does not become cancerous is the stem cell.
2006-10-22 08:34:33 · answer #1 · answered by Panda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Cancer of the heart muscle called angiosarcoma do occur but are rare and occur more often in children and more often in the right side of the heart. Cancers like melanoma are known to spread to the heart. That being said, it is somewhat curious why certain tissues are less susceptible to cancer. This is typically ascribed to the belief that the more cells that are actively dividing in an organ or tissue the less likely that organ or tissue will have a cancer arise in it. So skin, intestine and bone marrow which have high populations of dividing cells are more often to have a cancer arise in their cells than the heart whose muscle tissue is essentially non-dividing."
This was not my answer. I found it at ...
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/mole00/mole00484.htm
2006-10-22 08:16:52 · answer #2 · answered by TripleFull 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The two answers above me are true and correct. I have nothing to add to them. Very well done, guys, I'm giving your answers a good rating.
2006-10-22 08:20:23 · answer #3 · answered by TweetyBird 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not true,there are known tumors of the heart.
2006-10-22 08:09:59 · answer #4 · answered by David B 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋