What are cardiac cancers?

Answer 1

Here this might help you out:

Metastatic tumors arising from another adjacent or remote organ site in the body, that invade the heart occur 20 to 40 times more frequently than primary tumors (arising within the heart itself). Primary tumors of the heart and pericardium are rare, occurring with a frequency of 0.001 to 0.28 percent in reported post mortem series. Of the primary cardiac tumors, 75 per cent are benign and of these benign tumors, myxomas are the most common, 50 per cent.

The remaining primary cardiac tumors are malignant (meaning that they are capable of growing wildly in their place of origin and can metastasize or spread through the blood and lymph vessels to other parts of the body), the overwhelming majority of which are sarcomas . Cardiac sarcomas arise from the right side of the heart in 25 per cent of reported cases, whereas myxomas arise from right-sided cardiac structures in only 5 per cent of cases. Approximately 86 per cent of myxomas develop in the left atrium . An intracavitary tumor that obstructs the right ventricular outflow tract is about 300 times more likely to be malignant than benign .

The remaining primary cardiac tumor are malignant (meaning that it is capable of growing wildly in its place of origin The remaining primary cardiac tumor are malignant (meaning that it is capable of growing wildly in its place of origin and can metastasize or spread through the blood and lymph vessels to other parts of the body), the overwhelming majority of which are sarcomas . Cardiac sarcomas arise from the right side of the heart in 25 per cent of reported cases, whereas myxomas arise from right-sided cardiac structures in only 5 per cent of cases. Approximately 86 per cent of myxomas develop in the left atrium. An intracavitary tumor that obstructs the right ventricular outflow tract is about 300 times more likely to be malignant than benign .
Symptoms include weight loss, fatigue, fever, anemia, etc. Systemic tumor embolization occurs in 40-50 per cent, of patients with left atrial myxoma, with tumor fragments embolizing to the brain, kidneys and extremities. Symptoms in the above case include cough, weakness and dyspnea. There was also evidence of pulmonary hypertension.

Answer 2

cardiac means heart so im guessing it means cancers in the heart.

Answer 3

You mean like Leukemia - which is essentially cancer of the white blood cells?

Answer 4

a lot has to do with the respiratory troubles.