How come there is lung-, liver-, brain-, breastcancer, etc etc etc and there is no heartcancer?
2006-11-08 19:24:09 · 8 answers · asked by ~ Tan ~ moon7x4 ~ 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
There is cancer of the heart. It's very rare to have a primary tumor of the heart, but often cancer (especially sarcoma) can metastasize to the heart. I visit the support board, Sarcoma Alliance and there are people there who have tumors within their heart. It's usually diagnosed as Angiosarcoma or cardiac sarcoma.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic282.htm
2006-11-09 10:35:48 · answer #1 · answered by Panda 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The heart contains different types of cells and they continually moving= it does happen but is very, very rare- out of the thousands of homcare patients I have seen- 1 had cancerous tumors in and around the heart- D-rn
2006-11-08 19:28:53 · answer #2 · answered by Debby B 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cancerous growth starting in heart has not been heard by me so far but cancer spreading to the heart towards the end has been seen.
2006-11-08 19:33:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are tumors of the heart requiring surgery.
2006-11-08 22:33:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a tumor called cardiac myxoma.
2006-11-09 10:53:37 · answer #5 · answered by tan73h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is my uncle died of it last year ,but it isnt detected until after death,before this it is usually diagnosed as heart disease
2006-11-08 19:33:30 · answer #6 · answered by dumplingmuffin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The heart is mostly muscle.
2006-11-09 00:34:01 · answer #7 · answered by Char 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know, I've often wondered myself. Maybe you can but I've never heard of it.
2006-11-08 20:21:30 · answer #8 · answered by margo 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋