Killed my mother a few weeks ago.
That said, cancer spreads rapidly and grows in places where detection and surgery is often difficult, if not impossible. I understand your questioning though because I once had the same question. It seems like it's just tissue that keeps growing but understand that the body has unnecessary work to do and loss of blood occurs at the same time. You can't always have surgery because it weakens your body and mental state each time.
I'm just rambling but watching my mother go through it helped me understand a bit more.
That said, cancer spreads rapidly and grows in places where detection and surgery is often difficult, if not impossible. I understand your questioning though because I once had the same question. It seems like it's just tissue that keeps growing but understand that the body has unnecessary work to do and loss of blood occurs at the same time. You can't always have surgery because it weakens your body and mental state each time.
I'm just rambling but watching my mother go through it helped me understand a bit more.
In most places it isnt bad. It is when it travels to somewhere like the brain or the lungs ( or starts in one of said organs as well as some others) when it becomes bad. Worts are cancer. Herps are cancer. Breast cancer is survivable, until is spreads to the lungs. Something like luekemia (cancerous production of white blood cells) basically crowds out red blood cells, suffocating you.
Yes, cancer patients love going through agonizing surgeries/radiation/chemotherapy to remove 'overgrown tissue'. Their lives feel empty after they no longer are wheeled from radiology to oncology to surgery to intensive care. /sarcasm
(Dad fought cancer, lived and forever remains in constant fear that he will have to go through it all over again)
(Dad fought cancer, lived and forever remains in constant fear that he will have to go through it all over again)
Linflas
Lifer
- Jan 30, 2001
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Originally posted by: Jeff7
Just bear in mind, or rather, beware, when in the Off Topic section, seriousness is tough to find.
Sadly there seems to be no lack of rudeness and incivility though. At least the OP asked a simple question that wasn't about his/her lack of ability to find someone to mate with.
I fail to see why this was such a horrible question. It's not like people really actually explain cancer in simple terms when you see it on TV or hear about it. It's just "ohh, he or she has cancer...ooohhh"
My wife had thyroid cancer, in 6 months one cancerous tumor grew 20x as large, which is a very fast growth rate, indicating malignant cancer. She had her whole thyroid removed and was tested in her lymph nodes for spreading.
Which is the biggest danger of cancer. Fast growing cells that spread. Without removing them they can spread and grow very large, impeding organ functioning as they suck blood, nutrients, oxygen, and kill other cells around it. Slowly it will destroy any tissue if unchecked as it grows.
Brain cancer is devistating because removing tumors means doing brain surgery, a risky proposition at best. Without removing the tumor it'd eventually grow very large and destroy the brain. Lungs are the same way.
If it spreads too quickly, it can get everywhere and destroy the whole system. Operating and removing everything is very risky, as the blood loss, organ damage, and general shock to the system could be overwhelming, causing the whole body to shut down and die.
The cure for cancer, surgery and then radiation and chemotherapy is often just as devastating than cancer. Radiation and chemo is like taking a massive bomb to the body in an attempt to kill off a few cancerous cells. It doesn't just attack cancer, but everything else too. That is why it's so hard to treat. Radiation and chemo leave the person weak, exposing them to outside ailments and other cancers.
New treatment avenues include "smart bombs" which attack just the cancerous cells. Experiments in choking off oxygen to cancerous cells have proven somewhat successful, localizing treatment, rather than the nuke.
What they did to my wife was give her radiated iodine. The thyroid sucks up most of the iodine in your body, if they radiate it the iodine is absorbed and the radiation kills the thyroid cells that absorbed it. Kind of like a heat-seeking missile to put it into the most simple terms.
Nevermind people on here, most lack any type of empathy.
My wife had thyroid cancer, in 6 months one cancerous tumor grew 20x as large, which is a very fast growth rate, indicating malignant cancer. She had her whole thyroid removed and was tested in her lymph nodes for spreading.
Which is the biggest danger of cancer. Fast growing cells that spread. Without removing them they can spread and grow very large, impeding organ functioning as they suck blood, nutrients, oxygen, and kill other cells around it. Slowly it will destroy any tissue if unchecked as it grows.
Brain cancer is devistating because removing tumors means doing brain surgery, a risky proposition at best. Without removing the tumor it'd eventually grow very large and destroy the brain. Lungs are the same way.
If it spreads too quickly, it can get everywhere and destroy the whole system. Operating and removing everything is very risky, as the blood loss, organ damage, and general shock to the system could be overwhelming, causing the whole body to shut down and die.
The cure for cancer, surgery and then radiation and chemotherapy is often just as devastating than cancer. Radiation and chemo is like taking a massive bomb to the body in an attempt to kill off a few cancerous cells. It doesn't just attack cancer, but everything else too. That is why it's so hard to treat. Radiation and chemo leave the person weak, exposing them to outside ailments and other cancers.
New treatment avenues include "smart bombs" which attack just the cancerous cells. Experiments in choking off oxygen to cancerous cells have proven somewhat successful, localizing treatment, rather than the nuke.
What they did to my wife was give her radiated iodine. The thyroid sucks up most of the iodine in your body, if they radiate it the iodine is absorbed and the radiation kills the thyroid cells that absorbed it. Kind of like a heat-seeking missile to put it into the most simple terms.
Nevermind people on here, most lack any type of empathy.
moshquerade
No Lifer
- Nov 1, 2001
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You ask that question now but you have no idea until you personally expereince cancer because the person you love the most finds they have it. Then, all of a sudden, your world, your life, everything is turned upside down. All you can think about is CANCER. All you care about is CANCER because as strong as our technology and research is today, there really is not a strong cure for many types.
You are helpless in the face of it. You just stand and watch as your loved one is poked and proded every other week for chemo, raditation and every other imaginable treatment just so they have a chance at a new lease on life.
Until you feel that (i hope to God you never have to) you will never really understand why cancer is bad.
James3shin
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- Apr 5, 2004
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wow, after 3 pages no one posted a true direct answer as to how cancer kills a person. The answer does not have to do with the cancer cells actually leaching nutrients away from other organs but rather, the tumors can grow to large sizes, pushing against vital organs, thus crushing them. This crushing of the neighboring organs by a tumor is what causes the patients pain and ofcourse death.
Because the cancer keeps replicating. It also spread via the bloodstream. That replication requires nutrients and therefore takes most of the nutrients that are supposed to go to the other tissues in your body and kills the normal tissue. Most cells go through apoptosis before the DNA degrades and becomes cancerous, but once it becomes cancerous the allosteric reactions are inhibited and the replication (mitosis) of the cancerous cell keeps going. They have cancer cells that are continuing to grow from the 1960s in a Petri dish.
If the cancer cell is benign, it usually means your immune system was strong enough to kill sthe cancer, so in those cases, yes you can just remove the benign cancer cell. It is crucial to remove the benign cell because a trace of malignant cells could be there still. Also, the benign tumor still impedes normal tissue growth.
For malignant cells - those suckers literally suck the life out of you.
James3shin
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Originally posted by: Aikouka
To my knowledge, tumors do not have to be large to kill someone. They can also disrupt the normal workings of the organ(s) that they inhabit. But what do I know, I'm not the one with the doctor avatar
You're correct, the tumor doesn't have to be "large" just adequate in size to disrupt the organ. Our organs are very fragile, hence our relatively tough exterior of skin, fat and muscle. Look at how such a small foreign object like Kidney Stones can cause a person so much pain. Also, I'm not a doctor, just trying to become one.
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