is it bleeding out? how do cancers kill? I just don't understand
2006-12-27 08:39:58 · 13 answers · asked by phoenix rising 2 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
Cancer kills by complications it causes. This is usually due to the constant and accelerating growth which overwhelms the bodies ability to cope.
The reasoning is, if cancer existed in the body but stopped growing, the body could still survive.
The body can tolerate a tumor pushing against a organ so much. In brain cancer, the brain has little addition room. Brain tumors often cause seizures and vomiting due to increased intercranial pressure.
Blockages can occur. This can lower appetite (leading to slow wasting as in pancreatic cancer). Examples cancers of the abdomen and esphogeus.
Cancer cells often produce enyzmes which in small quantities can be tolerated. Fluid accumulation in the lungs, bone destroying enyzmes, etc. These can cause potentially fatal chemical imbalances that can lead to a heart attack, liver and/or kidney failure. Examples, cancers of the lung, bone and, leukemias.
In addition, cancer cells use the bodies energy and produce waste (blood) like any other cell.
In short, cancer profileration overwhelms the body and that's what really kills.
2006-12-27 12:22:17 · answer #1 · answered by oncogenomics 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It depends on the type of cancer. The cancer takes over the body and different organs begin to shut down. The cancer cells spread through the lymph nodes to different parts of the body. They may cause the kidneys to shut down and the liver to shut down.
Sometimes people get pneumonia or an infection and die of that, because they are not strong enough to fight it. Sometimes the effort gets too much for the heart and they die of heart failure.
Many people who have cancer eat less and less, and because of the cancer the body cannot get much benefit from the little food they do eat, and their bodies go into ketosis which is a life threatening condition.
Sometimes a blood clot happens which can cause death. Sometimes they gradually fall into a coma and don't wake up. Sometimes they simply die quietly in their sleep.
The cancer can cause a brain tumor which can lead to death or a tumor in the spinal column that can lead to paralysis and death.
There are numerous ways that cancer can and will eventually lead to death.
2006-12-27 08:58:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My husband died last year after a 5 year battle. He wanted to have end of life at home.
I can tell you usually the cancer has spread in the body and one cannot fight it off.
I believe my husband was tired out. He just couldn't fight any longer. He took a deep breathe and was gone.
Rather peaceful after all the pain he endured. He had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, it attacks your whole immune system . It is treatable but incurable. Life expectancy 5-6 years. Lucy
2006-12-27 13:28:01 · answer #3 · answered by lucyshines49 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lymphoma kills you thru shutting down your lymphatic gadget destroying your bodies skill to combat an infection. Leukemia is a 'maximum cancers of the blood' this maximum cancers is surely nasty because of the fact it spreads to different aspects of your physique in the path of the bloodstream and often ends up in greater severe cancers like liver maximum cancers or pancreatic maximum cancers. Tumor's on the different hand are yet another variety of maximum cancers which reasons undesirable mutated cells to multiply and boost right into a clump. If this clump grows sufficiently enormous it may impede the organic purposes of your physique. Like a thoughts tumor (expands reasons bruising in the thoughts till it shuts down the skill on your thoughts to function often)
2016-10-28 12:06:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lymphoma kills you by way of shutting down your lymphatic method destroying your bodies potential to fight illness. Leukemia is a 'melanoma of the blood' this melanoma is quite nasty due to the fact it spreads to other materials of your body by way of the bloodstream and on the whole results in more extreme cancers like liver cancer or pancreatic cancer. Tumor's however are a further sort of melanoma which explanations undesirable mutated cells to multiply and grow into a clump. If this clump grows gigantic ample it could possibly obstruct the natural features of your body. Like a mind tumor (expands causes bruising within the brain until it shuts down the capacity in your brain to function mostly)
2016-08-10 04:01:56 · answer #5 · answered by rothenburg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The cancer attacks certain parts of the body until they shut down, when those parts shut down that is what kills u
2006-12-27 08:43:50 · answer #6 · answered by Jan 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
it really depends on the type of cancer and what the patient agrees to . my son had brainstem cancer , and the tumors continued to grow to the point that it just stopped everything , his speech , his ability to eat , his ability to move , go to the bathroom , it eventually stopped his ability to breathe . he died at home on oct 10 2006 , he was 17 and he will forever be missed
2006-12-27 20:36:15 · answer #7 · answered by sindi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the cancer kills them. the cells that are defformed do not function properly and therefore cause systemic problems.
2006-12-27 08:42:47 · answer #8 · answered by bob d 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my dad had cancer and they told him it would not be the cancer that would kill him it would be ether lungs filling up with fluid or heart attack he died October 7 of this year his lungs filled up with fluid
2006-12-27 08:48:02 · answer #9 · answered by chanasta 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The cancerous cells replicate until they overtake all healthy cells.
2006-12-27 08:42:25 · answer #10 · answered by rumbler_12 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋