how does cancer kill you/is it a tumor?!


Question: How does cancer kill you/is it a tumor?
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it's a tumor and it can spread to other organs and interfere with their functioning.



Cancer is the body destroying itself with cell multiplication and invade other parts of the body. It's basically a cellular disease that can be hard to stop. That's why they use radical treatments like cutting out the tumors, chemotherapy drugs that kill of your cells (that are destroying each other), or radiation. In the treatment the process can sometimes be stopped so the bodies cellular process returns to normal!



my mother died of ovarian cancer.when they opened her up, there were multiple pea size tumors all over her abdomen.they tried chemo , and it worked for a while, but the tumors grew in size, she was unable to eat, and finally died.
my best friends son died of a sarcoma, that was a tumor in the abdomen, they cut it out, he was fine for a while, then grew back, they cut it out again, but he eventually died.he could not recoup from the 2nd surgery.
My brother had a tiny pea size nodule in the side of his neck, he was a heavy smoker for years, and found out he had tongue cancer.that nodule or tumor, had "legs" that went all the way down to his shoulder.he had 8 hours of surgery, including stripping his salivary glands.
these were all tumors, but there are so many types of cancers, like leukemia, which is not a tumor
but white blood cells gone crazy.



Cancer is a mutated growth of your own cells...it attaches itself to organs in your body and takes nutrients from that organ to help it grow and survive eventually causing the organ to fail and kill you. Hope that answers your question.



It's like having termites inside of your body that eat you little by little. (it's not termites it's just an expression)




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