My father was a healthy, happy man of 64 years. One day he hit himself really hard on our dining room table in the area of his body between the liver and the lungs. A month later he started having terrible pains and nausea so he went to see the doctor (in Spain) who diagnosed cancer and gave him 3 months to live. The doctor was correct.
2007-01-07 03:29:42 · 24 answers · asked by lucinbanus 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Cancer
No, especially as the "progession" was so fast. He probably had the cancer already and the knock just caused it to start showing symptoms;
2007-01-07 04:50:08 · answer #1 · answered by huggz 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I am so sorry to hear of your loss. I do not know if knocks can cause cancer but I do know one saved my nephew! He was 10 and was tackled badly at a school football match. His knee was still hurting a few days later and his mum took him to the docs. Within a few days he was diagnosed as having bone cancer!. He had to have part of his leg removed and chemotherapy. He is a lucky fellow because he survived. We thank our lucky stars that he was hurt at that football match or the cancer could have taken hold without anyone knowing and I would be telling you a different story. The knock then did not cause the cancer but because he had tests to see what was wrong - these showed the cancer up. I hope things get easier for you to bear soon. Take care
2007-01-07 04:05:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My Dad's best friend was a milkman who was his over his head for the money. He didn't smoke but less than a year later he died of cancer.
My sisters' husbands best man had a fall from a ladder at the age of about 22. He didn't smoke but six months later died from cancer.
I think that you are right in what you are looking at but maybe it needs to be looked at in a different way.
Did that person get the check up because of the knock or the fall and was the cancer there already?
I would also like to mention my Mum's Uncle who picked up 'dog-ends' off the street in the 1960's. Auntie controlled the purse strings - but dear old uncle lived until he was about 70.
I rather suspect that if you are prone to cancer you will get it and if you are not, you won't. Forget all the government crap about smoking and the rest, if you are going to die of cancer then you will.
As a small interjection, my Mum also worked with a woman who lost her 14 year old daughter to cancer. No falls or anything and the family did not smoke. It is just a bit unfortunate how it happens.
2007-01-07 04:03:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
From personal experience. I had a 'mystery lump' since age 11/12 but it wasn't sore - gave no trouble so just generally forgot about it - Would feel it every now and again as it was on the muscle on my lower back - size of 1/2 a small grape.
One day when 18 - it swole up to the size of large grape following (yet another) cycling 'incident'. Saw doctor & he wasn't concered - a 'fatty deposit'. Two days later was larger & painful (surrounding tissue inflamed) - had rush operation & got results back as 'extraskeletal Ewing's sarcoma' (bone cancer outside of bone) - I thoroughly believe it was an impact that triggered an inflamation of the site (due to the increase in blood vessels surrounding tumours) leading me to seek medical help. It had been benign for at least 7 years - but then I required a lot of radiotherapy & radical chemotherapy. That was over 12 years ago...been clear ever since...but a genetic predisposition to cancer is always in the back of my mind - so get any 'lumps' investigated...eventually.
2007-01-07 03:53:13 · answer #4 · answered by creviazuk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well it is possible???
I had a friend of mine during medical school, had a hit at the knee and then he became very sick and found to have some sort of cancer which affect the bone marrow and he died after that not long .
Another bone Cancer can be triggered by trauma which is very bad and an aggressive disease as well, usually affects teenagers.
2007-01-07 03:38:56 · answer #5 · answered by zajil 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
back in sept. my husband was driving a grain truck and hit his head on the window, he said it felt like someone hit him with a bat. he went to the dr because a big knot came up on his head and he was having headaches from it. they removed it and biopsied it and found it was cancerous. the cancer however didnt originate from the tumor on his head but in his kidney. he has since had a kidney removed and is now on hospice and we are just waiting and praying. im not saying a hit can cause cancer but thats how we have found most people go to the dr and find out they have cancer.
2007-01-07 04:38:03 · answer #6 · answered by Taunya M 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some of the old medical books site cases of cancer caused by a knock or wound butchers got cancer of the mouth from sucking wooden skewers and women got breast cancer from bruising to the breast. I don't know how much of this falls into line with modern medical thinking. But I think there is probably something in it if you are predisposed to the disease.
2007-01-07 03:35:27 · answer #7 · answered by Spiny Norman 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It's quite possible that the fall made the presence of the cancer obvious, by injuring something that the (already existing) cancer had affected. I don't believe that cancer kills in four months, nor that physical injuries have much to do with it.
2007-01-07 03:33:02 · answer #8 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No I don't believe it. Sorry to hear your story but I suspect the cancer had been growing inside your father for some considerable time before the accident and the timing of its discovery was just coincidence.
2007-01-07 03:33:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I am sure someone believes that it could. But that wasn't the cause, the cancer had been developing for much longer than the time between the injury and diagnosis.
2007-01-07 03:34:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋