If someone has cancer, does it affect his general immune system?!
Question: If someone is diagnosed with skin cancer (Bowens), is it relevant that before the diagnosis he was gettting sick (cold, flu etc) very often though he used to be a fairly healthy person?
Answers: If someone is diagnosed with skin cancer (Bowens), is it relevant that before the diagnosis he was gettting sick (cold, flu etc) very often though he used to be a fairly healthy person?
Scientists have shown that the body's immune system can be used as an effective weapon against skin cancers, researchers revealed yesterday. Patients whose self-defence mechanisms were boosted by drugs saw their malignant melanomas shrink and they remained alive for longer. Most cancers are brought on by an immune imbalance.
shouldn't affect his immune system greatly, however the skin is a good barrier against infection. But no, the only cancer that really affects the immune system is Leukamia which affects white blood cells
Yes because the body was fighting the cancer. I became run down, easily caught things and my hair was falling out but thought it was just work stress then I found out I had skin cancer.
yes im sure it does because the bad cancer cells are also attacking the good cells.
Bowen cancer is a cancer "in situ," meaning that it is highly localized and not spreading within the body. Therefore, it is unlikely to be able to affect the immune system or other systems.
The colds and flu were coincidental with the Bowen's.
To a cancer establish is necessary that immune system don't kill him, so it means that all cancers (stablished) have a immune system break.
Many times the immune system can work ''almost'' normally in infections, but its not on his best, because it would destroy cancer.