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Can you tell me how cancer that has spread to the brain kill you?
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Metastatic cancer: people can die from metastatic cancer from different causes- including: severe infection, severe malnutrition, or organs failure. metastatic disease to the brain should be treated obviously. any occupying lesion in the brain may increase pressure inside the skull/brain.. as the skull/brain is a close space- any increase pressure may cause herniation of the brain stem and it can cause demise.
Answered 6/27/2014
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