Curious Cancer Question?!
Question: Curious Cancer Question!?
Just out of curiosity Ive always wondered this!.
If a person has cancer and does not know it!.!.!.what happens!?
I mean I never hear of a person dying from cancer unless they go to the doctor and the doctor says they have so long to live and yada yada!.!.!.and then they pass away!.
But say someone doesnt go to the doctor, and has cancer, what will happen!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
If a person has cancer and does not know it!.!.!.what happens!?
I mean I never hear of a person dying from cancer unless they go to the doctor and the doctor says they have so long to live and yada yada!.!.!.and then they pass away!.
But say someone doesnt go to the doctor, and has cancer, what will happen!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
Cancer is a progressive disease!. It starts out as a microscopic cell and grows indefinitely!. Depending on the type of cell that is malignant (breast, colon, liver, bone, blood, brain, any cell within the body) and the type of malignancy will determine how fast the cancer will grow !. !.some grow slowly, some are extremely aggressive !. !. while cancer is growing it co-exists nicely with the rest of the body!. A healthy person could go a substancial amount of time before ever even noticing they might have cancer!. The body will treat a growing tumor in the same manner it treats any other organ within the body !. !.as it considers the tumor just another body part!.
Eventually the malignancy may grow large enough to invade surrounding tissue !. !. it is than that a patient may feel uncomfortable or tired or have pain !. !.but since cancer symptoms can mimic so many other conditions it may take months before the diagnosis can be narrowed down to cancer !. !. and by than the cancer has metastasized!. It is metastatic cancer that can be the most life threatening because metastatic tumors 'shed' hundreds of tiny replicas of itself into the blood or lymphatic system!. These hundred of new cancer cells can travel anywhere in the body, lodge somewhere else and begin a whole new colony of tumors !. !. sometimes in multiple locations!. That is why you will hear of someone having breast cancer that has metastasized to the brain and the liver and the bones as well!. Those new cancer colonies will just repeat what the primary cancer does !. !. and begin sending out hundreds of new malignant cells into the blood stream !. !.that is how a cancer patient gets 'filled' with cancer!. Further !. !. even more horrifying !. !. even after chemotherapy treatment to kill off the tiny malignant cells that may be anywhere in the body !. !. all it takes is one malignant cell to survive by hiding out somewhere to start the entire process all over again (referred to as relapse)!. A surviving malignant cell after heavy duty chemotherapy !. !. is a cell that has become resistant to that type of treatment!. Which than requires a whole new protocol to try and stop this new 'smarter' cancer!. Again, before a new protocol can be found the cancer can spread and overwhelm the body!.
It really has nothing to do with going to the doctor !. !. the definition of malignancy means the affected cells have lost the ability to stop growing !. !.and will grow into tumors, replicate itself, and all new tumors will replicate themselves !. !.indefinitely!. Usually a patient can co-exist with this growing tumor burden !. !. and be unaware that it is there until it is very advanced!. Once there are so many tumors in the body !. !. there is little a doctor can do at that point !. !.they can try but there is little guarantee that treatment will be effective in stopping disease progression!.
Advanced cancer can be particularly cruel to children whom are often too small to carry the burden of heavy tumors !. !. tumors increase in weight the larger they become !. !. 30 or 40 pounds or usually more !. !. and that is one reason you may see someone with cancer in a wheelchair!. Make no doubt that this is a horrific, horrific disease !. !. that the general public has absolutely no idea about !. !. (too many clean movies showing someone dying peacefully in bed) !. !.cancer is horrific in the end stage!.
If a patient does not go to the doctor the disease will overtake the entire body system and eventually break through the skin !. !. tumors can grow enormous and as long as the patient still lives the disease will progess and eventually cause horrific disfigurement, open sores, gapping wounds, masses of diseased tissue exposed !. !. few people ever see a patient this advanced either because the patient dies or the patient is too ill or too ashamed to come up into public!.
In answer to your question !. !. a patient will die eventually !. !. some faster than others!.
Images:
Ewings sarcoma
http://hematolog!.vinchi!.ru/illustr/afoni!.!.!.
Osteosarcoma
http://impiousdigest!.com/osteosarcoma%20!.!.!.
Graphic Image
Synovial sarcoma
http://www!.bioscience!.org/atlases/tumpat!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Eventually the malignancy may grow large enough to invade surrounding tissue !. !. it is than that a patient may feel uncomfortable or tired or have pain !. !.but since cancer symptoms can mimic so many other conditions it may take months before the diagnosis can be narrowed down to cancer !. !. and by than the cancer has metastasized!. It is metastatic cancer that can be the most life threatening because metastatic tumors 'shed' hundreds of tiny replicas of itself into the blood or lymphatic system!. These hundred of new cancer cells can travel anywhere in the body, lodge somewhere else and begin a whole new colony of tumors !. !. sometimes in multiple locations!. That is why you will hear of someone having breast cancer that has metastasized to the brain and the liver and the bones as well!. Those new cancer colonies will just repeat what the primary cancer does !. !. and begin sending out hundreds of new malignant cells into the blood stream !. !.that is how a cancer patient gets 'filled' with cancer!. Further !. !. even more horrifying !. !. even after chemotherapy treatment to kill off the tiny malignant cells that may be anywhere in the body !. !. all it takes is one malignant cell to survive by hiding out somewhere to start the entire process all over again (referred to as relapse)!. A surviving malignant cell after heavy duty chemotherapy !. !. is a cell that has become resistant to that type of treatment!. Which than requires a whole new protocol to try and stop this new 'smarter' cancer!. Again, before a new protocol can be found the cancer can spread and overwhelm the body!.
It really has nothing to do with going to the doctor !. !. the definition of malignancy means the affected cells have lost the ability to stop growing !. !.and will grow into tumors, replicate itself, and all new tumors will replicate themselves !. !.indefinitely!. Usually a patient can co-exist with this growing tumor burden !. !. and be unaware that it is there until it is very advanced!. Once there are so many tumors in the body !. !. there is little a doctor can do at that point !. !.they can try but there is little guarantee that treatment will be effective in stopping disease progression!.
Advanced cancer can be particularly cruel to children whom are often too small to carry the burden of heavy tumors !. !. tumors increase in weight the larger they become !. !. 30 or 40 pounds or usually more !. !. and that is one reason you may see someone with cancer in a wheelchair!. Make no doubt that this is a horrific, horrific disease !. !. that the general public has absolutely no idea about !. !. (too many clean movies showing someone dying peacefully in bed) !. !.cancer is horrific in the end stage!.
If a patient does not go to the doctor the disease will overtake the entire body system and eventually break through the skin !. !. tumors can grow enormous and as long as the patient still lives the disease will progess and eventually cause horrific disfigurement, open sores, gapping wounds, masses of diseased tissue exposed !. !. few people ever see a patient this advanced either because the patient dies or the patient is too ill or too ashamed to come up into public!.
In answer to your question !. !. a patient will die eventually !. !. some faster than others!.
Images:
Ewings sarcoma
http://hematolog!.vinchi!.ru/illustr/afoni!.!.!.
Osteosarcoma
http://impiousdigest!.com/osteosarcoma%20!.!.!.
Graphic Image
Synovial sarcoma
http://www!.bioscience!.org/atlases/tumpat!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
well, eventually, on the end, she or he will still go to the doctor!. a typical example for this are people being diagnosed with end stage or terminal cancer!. they went to the doctor maybe because they fainted or vomited blood!. because of these disturbing symptoms, they would ask for consult and eventually be diagnosed with cancer!. but for the real answer to the question, if they will not go to the docotor
they would eventually die!. sad, but its the truth!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
they would eventually die!. sad, but its the truth!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Many people die with undiagnosed cancer!.
Remember if an older person dies, an autopsy is not performed unless there are suspicious circumstances!. The popular cause of death is listed as heart failure!.
People only seek treatment, as a rule, if a screening test has revealed cancer, or if they are symptomatic!.
Each of us who has been diagnosed with cancer, was asymptomatic for months or years before our diagnoses!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Remember if an older person dies, an autopsy is not performed unless there are suspicious circumstances!. The popular cause of death is listed as heart failure!.
People only seek treatment, as a rule, if a screening test has revealed cancer, or if they are symptomatic!.
Each of us who has been diagnosed with cancer, was asymptomatic for months or years before our diagnoses!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
slow painful deathWww@Answer-Health@Com