Question 1

how does cancer actually kill you? like what is the actual causative moment that sends you to death? i have googled but just don't understand.

Accepted Answer

Process, not moment.: Cancer cells are damaged cells that can't stop reproducing.  So they keep multiplying and don't stop.  These cells also create a blood supply that feeds them all the nutrients you eat.  Sometimes they spread to other areas of the body and keep multiplying and feeding off your food.  Eventually your body doesn't get most of the nutrients and slowly dies while the cancer grows by stealing food.

Question 2

how does lungs cancer kill u? and what happen to u?

Accepted Answer

Cancer and death: Lung cancer can cause death through different mechanism- among of them will include-
1. Respiratory failure- due to the obstruction of major airway or massive involvement of lung cancer to lung/chest cavity
2 infection due to poor nutrition status
3 coughing up blood/hemoptysis- resulting in aspiration
4 blood clots in the lung
5 spreading to brain causing increase pressure in the brain and death.

Question 3

how does skin cancer kill?

Accepted Answer

Slowly.: Cancer cells are damaged cells that can't stop reproducing.  So they keep multiplying and don't stop.  These cells also create a blood supply that feeds them all the nutrients you eat.  Sometimes they spread to other areas of the body and keep multiplying and feeding off your food.  Eventually your body doesn't get most of the nutrients and slowly dies while the cancer grows by stealing food.

Question 4

how does bone cancer kill a person?

Accepted Answer

Invasion: Cancer will kill you if the cancer cells invade healthy tissue/organs and impair their function.  With "bone cancer", this can occur by affecting blood cell production in the bone, or the cancer can metastasize to other organs and cause organ failiure.

Question 5

how does prostate cancer kill a patient?

Accepted Answer

Different effects: Prostate cancer, like most cancers, kill patients by varoius methods. Specifically for prostate cancer, a leading cause of mortality is bone metstasis which typically leads to fractures and possible surgery. Other causes inlcude, bleeding, kidney failure from urinary obstruction, and malnutrition.

Question 6

how does pancreatic cancer kill the body?

Accepted Answer

Spread : Common sites are liver and peritoneal cavity leading to ascites, jaundice, liver failure.  Obstructed bile ducts and invasion into coeliac neural plexus can cause agonizing pain. Cancers of the head and pancreatic neck may differ from ampulla or pancreatic tail. The latter have longer survival and somewhat better prognosis.

Question 7

interested to know how does stomach cancer kill you?

Accepted Answer

May aspects: Cancers in general and stomach cancers in particular spread to other organs, e.g., liver and impair their function. Person may bleed from stomach cancer. Disseminated cancers cause cachexia and predispose the person to infections. Inability to eat and digest food causes malnutrition and inanition. Cancer may spread to lungs, brain bones etc and contribute to multi-organ failure.

Question 8

how does chemoembolization kill cancer cells?

Accepted Answer

2 methods: The first is that the particles/medicine clogs the blood vessels that provide essential oxygen and nutrients to the cancer growth.  The second is that the chemotherapy medicine that is injected prevents the cancer cells from dividing and growing.

Question 9

how does melphalan kill cancer cells?

Accepted Answer

Halt division: Melphalan or Alkeran (melphalan) is l phenylalanine mustard  an alkylating agent acts on guanine based dna by halting  cancer cell division.

Question 10

how does cancer cells be killed without damaging the good cells ?

Accepted Answer

Insightful question: Chemotherapeutic drugs at well-chosen doses kill cancer cells , preferentially more than normal cells. Targeted therpy are engineered to target  cancer cells with few side effects. Anitodies are sythesized in the lab against  receptors located on cancer cells. Chemo- drugs are sometimes linked to antibodies to hit only tumor cells. We are getting smarter by the day. Thank you for asking.

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