Does any kind of cancer starts off as a boil?

Question

My dad just recently died a week ago, and doctors said he had cancer, but where he had cancer at started as a boil. the skin specialist said he had staph.

Answer 1

Merkel cell carcinoma kind of looks like a boil but is a rare type of aggressive skin cancer.

Staph infection is a common problem during late stage cancer. If your Dad had any of several types of cancer which had silently grown to stage four disease then this staph boil might have been his first obvious symptom other than his possibly feeling tired or thinking he had the flu. Sorry about your father's passing.

Answer 2

No staph is staph, it's a blood infection, that could have been caused by a boil...but cancer is cancer, they might just not have detected it in time...cancer can be in tumor form, if this was the case it could have been thought it was a boil....but this all sounds a bit odd...I'm very sorry for your loss but i would try to find out some better answers to this.

Answer 3

Uh, cancer does not start as a staph infection. It comes from mutated cells. It didn't start as a boil/infection. I'm sorry about your father. Mine also died of cancer. It's why I now do what I do.

Answer 4

From the National Cancer Institute, the 7 warning signs of cancer are--

C- Change in bowel or bladder habits

A- A sore that does not heal

U- Unusual bleeding or discharge

T- Thickening or lump in breast or elsewhere

I- Indigestion or Dysphagia (difficult or painful swallowing)

O- Obvious change in wart or mole

N- Nagging cough or hoarseness

Answer 5

No, that isn't possible.

It could be possible that enough investigating wasn't done and he was, originally, misdiagnosed.

I'm terribly sorry for your loss.