Cancer

[grandfatherd]

Hello everyone.
Just thinking about the big "C", as my wife died recently with/ though lung cancer.The question I would ask is, how dose cancer progress and finaly end life?

Dannny,

[muchlovex]

Hi grandfatherd,

I just wanted to say I am sorry that you lost your wife to such a dreadful disease. At least she is not suffering now.

I lost my mam to cancer 3 years ago.
Muchlovex

[Sqad]

How does it progress?.........2 main ways:

Direct spread...it grows from the original site, bowel, lung , breast ect and invades the tissues and impairs the function of the organ of which the cancer is invading....shortness of breath, mal absorption of bowel nutrients, blood electrolyte disturbances, kidney and liver failure and ultimately death.

Secondary spread (metastases).....spread of malignant cells into the blood stream or lymphatic system to other parts of the body....brain, lung and bones. These secondary or metastatic growths then act in the same way as the direct growths described above.

Each primary tumour has a predilection to where it likes to metastasise.

This is a very simple resumee.

[fruitsalad]

sorry for your loss grandfatherd, i lost my Dad with lung cancer and apart from a cough we would never have known there was anything wrong with him, although he did start to lose weight towards the end and coughing blood, he was taken into hospital because his calcium levels were extremely high, he died the next morning.