why people do not suffer from heart cancer?

Question

cancers affect different organs of the body such as liver,pancreas etc. but it never affects heart cells ,why?

Answer 1

People do suffer from the heart cancer.However, the chance according to a study from Hong Konk, is less than 0.01 per cent.
The most of the tumours which are primarily arising from the heart are non- cancer in nature(benign).However, cancer tumour do arise.
Most of the time, cancer tumour that is detected in the heart, has commonly got the origin from the other organs that are situated close to the heart.For example, a lung cancer can invade the heart muscle.This is called "metastasis".
Cancer of the heart affect every single structure within the heart like valves,blood vessels and muscle(myocardium).The victim dies commonly from the heart failure.
Hope, this helps.
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Answer 2

You are misinformed. Not sure why you think that people do not have heart cancer. They do, but it is just rare.

People can have a primary or secondary heart cancer.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=AbstractPlus&list_uids=1728367

This is one of those questions that people ask in here all the time. So, here is the answer reposted:

Heart cancer is rare, but I know that it occurs because people in the Sarcoma group where I go have Angiosarcoma. It is a rare disease so not many people have heard about it (also referred to as Cardiac Sarcoma or Angiosarcoma of the Heart).

Cardiac Sarcoma
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic282.htm

Primary cardiac tumors.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=1345598


With heart angiosarcoma the "patients can be asymptomatic for a long time or they can present with symptoms mimicking acute pericarditis, pulmonary embolism, or tricuspid stenosis."

Cancer BackUp: Angiosarcoma of the Heart
http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=17848


"Angiosarcomas represent 1% of all sarcomas. One-third of the cases occur on the skin, one-fourth of the cases occur in the soft tissue or organs such as breast, liver, heart and lungs." - Sarcoma Alliance. http://www.sarcomaalliance.com/

Other rare types of malignant heart tumor includes pericardial mesothelioma and a primary heart lymphoma (which can occur in people with AIDS). Secondary cancers (originate elsewhere in the body) can also metatasize to the heart including lung and breast carcinoma, soft-tissue sarcoma, renal cancer, malignant melanoma, leukemia, lymphoma, and sometimes Kaposi's Sarcoma

Answer 3

It's not true that people NEVER suffer from heart cancer but the cells within our hearts are just not prone to the malfunctioning of other cells in our body that make them grow uncontrolably.

Answer 4

Cancer is most common in cells that are rapidly dividing to produce new cells.

Consequently, most cancers occur in epithelial cells (carcinomas) and blood cells (leukemias and lymphomas). Epithelial cells line the lungs, intestines, breast, prostate, ovaries, bladder and uterus. These are the organs where most cancers occur.

Heart cells (like skeletal muscle cells) have stopped dividing (they are called 'post-mitotic cells' - mitosis is the process of cell division). Because they are not dividing they are at very low risk for developing cancer.

For the same reason, brain cancer usually occurs in children and rarely occurs in adults. Neurons (brain cells) do not divide to make new cells in the adult brain. They rapidly divide and grow new cells in children as the brain develops. Note: adults do get cancer in cells in the brain, but this usually occurs in the brain's immune cells which are continually dividing (glial cells) and not in the neurons.

Hope you find this helpful. Best wishes.

Answer 5

Maybe if you get cancer of the heart, it would cause you to have a major heart attack and then you wouldn't know that it was from cancer???

Answer 6

Cancer can affect any body tissue. It's just more common in some tissues than it is in others.

Answer 7

Maybe the heart bring the desist to other body part..

Answer 8

because heart is leo how cancer can enter it

Answer 9

It does happen. It's just not very common.

Answer 10

It can happen however it is very, very rare.