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An abnormal condition known as a disease is one that specifically damages an organism’s structure or function, either completely or in part, without being instantly triggered by any external shock. Diseases are recognized as medical conditions having recognizable signs and symptoms. Either internal problems or outside factors like infections can cause an illness. For instance, defects of the internal immune system can lead to a variety of diseases, including various immunodeficiency types, hypersensitivity, allergies, and autoimmune disorders.

In humans, the term “sickness” is usually used to describe any disease that causes the individual who is afflicted to endure pain, dysfunction, agony, social problems, or even death, as well as troubles similar to these for those who come into contact with the person. This broader definition may also include isolated symptoms, aberrant behaviors, illnesses, syndromes, infections, abnormal alterations in structure and function, and wounds. They may, however, be viewed as separate groups in other circumstances and for different purposes. Diseases can affect people not just physically but also mentally, as getting sick and dealing with it can alter one’s perspective on life.

Cancer

Cells that proliferate uncontrollably and without differentiation are said to have cancer. The term “cancer” refers to a group of more than 100 distinct diseases that gradually progress and entail the unchecked division of body cells. It involves unrestrained and unchecked mitotic division of certain cells, which causes malignant development or tissue expansion and invades nearby tissues to produce tumors. Simply said, healthy cells have programming that allows them to “know what to do and when to do it,” but cancer cells lack this programming, causing them to grow and duplicate uncontrollably. Additionally, they have no physiological use. We now refer to these cells as neoplasm.

Cancer Cells

Uncontrolled cell growth characterizes cancerous cells. Unlike healthy cells, cancer cells disobey signals to stop dividing and continue to expand uncontrollably. Because they are unable to recognize their natural boundary, they may spread to parts of the body where they have no business being. Tumors are collections of malignant cells that have continued to divide.

The following three categories can be used to categorize tumors:

  1. Benign Tumours or Non-Cancerous Tumours: Non-cancerous cells make up benign tumors, which prevents them from encroaching on neighboring cells. In comparison to tumors that are malignant, it is comparatively harmless. Typically, it grows slowly and just slightly harms the body. However, benign tumors can be lethal if they develop in organs like the brain. It cannot grow back, and surgery is required for treatment. Benign tumors include adenomas, fibroids, hemangiomas, and lipomas.
  2. Malignant Tumours or Cancerous Tumours: Cancerous cells that infect adjacent tissues form malignant tumors. It can spread to other body tissues by entering the circulation or lymph nodes. Metastasis is the term for this. It frequently grows in number. The patient’s death could result from this because it is so dangerous. Examples of malignant tumors include blastoma, sarcoma, germ cell tumors, and carcinoma.
  3. Premalignant Tumours: It has been noted that premalignant tumors exhibit the traits of malignant tumors. Even though it hasn’t spread yet, it has the capacity to develop into malignant cells. Premalignant tumors, to put it simply, are tumors with a higher likelihood of developing into cancer. Premalignant tumors include actinic keratosis, cervical dysplasia, lung metaplasia, and leukoplakia.

Types of Cancer

Based on the abnormal cell proliferation of a particular organ in the body, there are more than a thousand different forms of cancer. The following are the top six categories:

  • Carcinoma: The most typical variety is termed carcinoma, sometimes known as cancer of the internal or exterior lining of the body. It comes from the body’s epithelial cells. The breast, skin, pancreas, lungs, and other organs and glands are where they are most frequently diagnosed. There are two subtypes of carcinomas:
    • Adenocarcinoma- It grows in a gland or an organ.
    • Squamous cell carcinoma- The squamous epithelium is where it starts.
  • Sarcoma: It refers to cancer that develops in the bones, tendons, cartilage, muscles, and fats, as well as other supporting and connective tissues. In addition to Kaposi sarcoma, liposarcoma (adipose tissue), leiomyosarcoma (smooth muscles), and others, osteosarcoma or osteogenic sarcoma is the most prevalent type of sarcoma in the bone.
  • Myeloma: It is a specific type of cancer that develops in bone marrow’s plasma cells. The plasma cells create the blood’s proteins. Another name for multiple myeloma is Kahler disease.
  • Leukemia: Another name for it is a liquid blood cancer. The Greek phrase for leukemia is “white blood.” It is bone marrow cancer. It frequently occurs in conjunction with an excess of immature white blood cells (WBCs). These WBCs don’t function as efficiently as they ought to. As a result, the patient is frequently at risk for infection. Red blood cells (RBCs) are also affected by leukemia, which can result in anemia, poor blood coagulation, and weariness.
  • Lymphoma: It is the kind of cancer that appears in the lymphatic system’s glands or nodes, which are a component of our immune system. Additionally, lymphomas can develop in certain organs like the brain, breast, or stomach. Extranodal lymphomas are the name given to these lymphomas. Two subtypes of lymphomas exist:
    • Hodgkin lymphoma – It comes from the B cells.
    • Non-Hodgkin lymphoma – It comes from B or T lymphocytes.
  • Mixed Types: In a mixed kind of cancer, the components may come from one category or several other ones. Following are a few examples of this:
    • Carcinosarcoma
    • Teratocarcinoma
    • Adenosquamous carcinoma
    • Mixed mesodermal tumor

Causes of Cancer

  1. DNA damage from ionizing radiations like X-rays and gamma rays as well as non-ionizing radiations like UV results in neoplastic transformation, or the development of malignant cells.
  2. Other causes of cancer include exposure to nickel, asbestos, chromate, and radioactive materials in the workplace and environment.
  3. Stress and heightened negative emotions are examples of social and psychological causes.
  4. Cancer is also caused by a number of substances found in food, such as sodium nitrate and Clostridium botulinum.
  5. Lung cancer is mostly brought on by the chemical carcinogens found in cigarette smoke.
  6. Physical, chemical, or biological stimuli can cause the transformation of healthy cells into malignant neoplastic cells or cancerous cells. These substances are known as carcinogens.
  7. Viral oncogenes are genes that are present in cancer-causing viruses, or oncogenic viruses. A lot of genes are sometimes referred to as proto-oncogenes or cellular oncogenes (c-onc). These cells are recognized in normal cells that, if activated under specific circumstances, may change into cancerous cells.

Diagnosis

The purpose of cancer treatment is to eliminate your cancer and provide you with a normal life expectancy.

Cancer treatments may be used as:

  • Primary treatment: One of the main goals of treatment is to either completely remove all cancer from the body or to remove all cancer cells. Any cancer treatment can be used as the first line of defense, but for the most common cancer types, surgery is the most popular first cancer treatment. If your cancer is particularly amenable to radiation therapy or chemotherapy, you might receive one of those treatments as your primary course of treatment.
  • Adjuvant treatment: After primary treatment, adjuvant therapy tries to eradicate any remaining cancer cells to reduce the risk of the condition recurring. Any cancer treatment can use adjuvant therapy. Chemotherapy, radiation treatment, and hormone therapy are examples of common adjuvant treatments. Similar to adjuvant therapy, neoadjuvant therapy entails giving drugs prior to the primary therapy in an effort to facilitate or enhance the latter’s efficacy.
  • Palliative treatment: Palliative treatment can help with both cancer-specific symptoms and therapy-related adverse effects. Hormone replacement treatment, chemotherapy, radiation, and surgery are all methods for symptom reduction. Other medications could be used to treat symptoms like pain and dyspnea. Along with other cancer-curing treatments, palliative care might be given.

Types of Cancer Treatment

There are numerous cancer treatment options. The kind of cancer you have and its stage will determine the kind of treatment you get.

Biomarker Testing 

Testing for biomarkers is a means to find genes, proteins, and other components (also known as tumor markers or biomarkers) that can reveal information about cancer. A distinct pattern of biomarkers characterizes each person’s cancer. Some biomarkers influence the efficacy of specific cancer therapies. Other varieties of biomarkers are also available to aid medical professionals in the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of cancer. Biomarker testing is only for cancer patients. Biomarker testing is available for persons with solid tumors and blood cancer. Other names for cancer therapy biomarker testing include:

  1. Tumour Analysis
  2. Genetic testing for tumours
  3. Genetic analysis or profiling
  4. Either molecular profiling or testing
  5. Somatic evaluation
  6. Cancer subtypes

If a biomarker test is used in conjunction with a particular treatment, it may be referred to as a companion diagnostic test.

Genetic testing to determine whether a person has inherited mutations that increase their risk of developing cancer is distinct from biomarker testing. The mutations you have at birth are said to be inherited. 

Chemotherapy 

Chemotherapy is a form of cancer treatment that employs chemicals to eradicate cancer cells. Chemotherapy inhibits or retards the cancer cells’ rapid cell division and proliferation. There are two uses for chemotherapy:

  1. Treat cancer: Chemotherapy can treat cancer, reduce the likelihood that it will come back, or halt or delay its progress.
  2. Ease cancer symptoms: Tumors that are causing pain and other issues can be reduced by utilizing chemotherapy.

Combined with additional medical procedures, chemotherapy

  • Reduce a tumor’s size prior to surgery or radiation treatment (called neoadjuvant chemotherapy)
  • Eradicate any cancer cells that could still be present after radiation or surgery (called adjuvant chemotherapy)
  • Make other therapies more effective
  • Rid your body of cancer cells that have returned or expanded to other areas.

Chemotherapy kills fast-dividing cancerous cells, in addition, to rapidly dividing healthy cells. The cells that line your lips, and intestines, and those that promote the growth of your hair are a few examples. It’s possible for adverse symptoms including mouth sores, nausea, and hair loss to result from harm to healthy cells. After the chemotherapy is over, side symptoms frequently improve or disappear.

The most frequent adverse effect is weariness, which is a state of being worn out and exhausted. You can become ready for tiredness by

  1. Requesting a ride to and from chemotherapy
  2. Arranging for downtime the day before and the day after chemotherapy
  3. Requesting assistance with childcare and meals on the day of treatment and for at least one day afterward

Hormone Therapy 

Hormone therapy is a type of cancer treatment that slows or stops the growth of cancer that is hormone-dependent. Hormone therapy is also known as endocrine therapy, hormonal therapy, or hormone treatment. There are two main uses for hormone therapy.

  1. Treat cancer: Hormone therapy can halt or decrease the progression of cancer and lessen the likelihood that it will come back.
  2. Ease cancer symptoms: Men with prostate cancer who are unable to undergo surgery or radiation therapy may benefit from hormone therapy to lessen or avoid their symptoms.

The two main types of hormone therapy are those that interfere with how hormones operate in the body and those that prevent the body from producing hormones.

Hormone treatment is used to treat breast and prostate cancers, both of which rely on hormones for growth. Hormone therapy is typically used in conjunction with other cancer treatments. The type of treatment you need will depend on the type of cancer you have, how far it has spread if it used hormones to grow, and whether you have any other health conditions.

In conjunction with further therapies, hormone therapy

  1. Reduce a tumor’s size prior to surgery or radiation treatment (called neoadjuvant therapy)
  2. Reduce the likelihood that cancer may return following primary treatment (called adjuvant therapy)
  3. Obliterate cancerous cells in your body that have resurfaced or migrated to other areas.

Hyperthermia 

With little to no harm to healthy tissue, hyperthermia is a sort of treatment in which bodily tissue is heated to as much as 113 °F to help injure and kill cancer cells. There are several names for hyperthermia used to treat cancer, including thermal therapy, thermal ablation, or thermotherapy.

For the purpose of treating hyperthermia, a variety of approaches may be utilized to generate heat. These methods consist of:

  • Probes that make energy from microwaves
  • Radio waves (also called radiofrequency)
  • Lasers
  • Ultrasound
  • Heating fluids such as blood or chemotherapy drugs and putting them into the body (called perfusion)
  • Placing the entire body in a heated chamber or hot water bath or wrapping it with heated blankets

It is not frequently used to treat cancer with hyperthermia. For advanced tumors, however, it is sometimes combined with additional therapies such as radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Advanced tumors of the following categories have been treated with it:

  • Appendix cancer
  • Bladder
  • Brain cancer
  • Breast
  • Cervical cancer
  • Esophageal cancer
  • Head and neck cancer
  • Liver
  • Lung cancer
  • Melanoma
  • Mesothelioma
  • Sarcoma
  • Rectal cancer

Almost always, other cancer treatments are coupled with hyperthermia. Numerous clinical studies have shown that adding hyperthermia to treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy can help shrink tumors and may speed up the death of cancer cells.

Before inserting microscopic probes with thermometers into the tumor, the doctor first applies a local anaesthetic to the treatment region. The clinician can carefully monitor the temperature of the tumor and surrounding tissue while administering therapy thanks to thermometers. It could be feasible to confirm that the probes are positioned accurately using imaging techniques like CT scans.

Immunotherapy 

Immunotherapy improves your immune system’s capacity to combat cancer. The immune system in your body contributes to the fight against diseases and infections. Organs, white blood cells, and lymphatic tissues make up its structure. One form of biological therapy is immunotherapy. Cancer is treated using compounds derived from living creatures in a type of therapy known as biological therapy.

The immune system recognizes aberrant cells, eliminates them, and most likely stops or slows the growth of many malignancies as part of its regular activity. Immune cells, for instance, can occasionally be discovered in and around malignancies. These lymphocytes, also known as tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, or TILs, are evidence that the tumor is being recognized by the immune system. People who have cancers that have TILs frequently fare better than those whose tumors do not.

Even while the immune system can stop or limit the spread of cancer, cancer cells have mechanisms for avoiding immune system eradication. Cancer cells, as an illustration:

  • Possess genetic alterations that reduce their immune system’s ability to detect them.
  • Possess proteins on their outside that inhibit immune cells.
  • The surrounding healthy cells are altered so that they obstruct the immune system’s response to the cancer cells.

Immunotherapy enhances the immune system’s ability to combat cancer. Immunotherapy can have unwanted effects, many of which arise when your body’s immune system, which has been boosted to fight cancer, simultaneously attacks healthy cells and tissues.

Photodynamic Therapy

A substance known as a photosensitizer or photosensitizing agent, which is activated by light, is used in photodynamic treatment to destroy cancer cells. A laser or other source, such as LEDs, may be the source of the light. PDT is yet another name for photodynamic treatment. The majority of the time, photodynamic therapy is utilized as a local treatment, which means it only affects a single area of the body.

Photodynamic therapy has been authorized by the FDA to treat:

  1. Atopic keratosis
  2. cutaneous T-cell lymphoma that is advanced
  3. esophageal Barrett’s
  4. basal cell carcinoma
  5. throat (esophageal) cancer
  6. lung cancer that is not tiny cell
  7. Skin cancer with squamous cells (Stage 0)

Additionally, photodynamic treatment is employed to treat the following malignancies’ symptoms:

  • When esophageal cancer obstructs the throat
  • Whenever non-small cell lung cancer obstructs the airways

Photosensitizers produce an oxygen radical, a type of oxygen that kills cells when they are exposed to a certain wavelength of light after having absorbed them. The tumor’s blood arteries may be damaged by photodynamic therapy, which inhibits the tumor from receiving the blood it requires to continue growing. Additionally, it can cause the immune system to start attacking tumor cells elsewhere in the body.

Radiation Therapy 

Radiation therapy usually referred to as radiotherapy, is used as a cancer treatment to eliminate cancer cells and shrink tumors. Low levels of radiation are used in x-rays to view inside your body, just like when taking x-rays of your teeth or broken bones. Radiation therapy disrupts cancer cells’ DNA, either killing them or, at high doses, limiting their ability to proliferate. Cancer cells with irreparable DNA damage either stop reproducing or pass away. The body destroys and gets rid of the harmed cells after they pass away. Cancer cells are not quickly destroyed by radiation therapy. Days or weeks of treatment are needed before the DNA damage is sufficient to kill cancer cells. To address pain and other issues brought on by the tumor, such as difficulty breathing or loss of bowel and bladder control, external beam radiation may cause tumors to shrink. Radiopharmaceuticals are medications used in systemic radiation therapy to relieve cancer pain that has gone to the bone.

Numerous cancers are treated using external beam radiation treatment. The most typical malignancies that are treated with brachytherapy are those of the head and neck, breast, cervix, prostate, and eye. The most popular method for treating some types of thyroid cancer is radioactive iodine, or I-131, a form of systemic radiation treatment. Some patients with advanced prostate cancer or gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumors receive treatment with targeted radionuclide therapy, another form of systemic radiation therapy (GEP-NET). The term “molecular radiotherapy” is another name for this kind of therapy.

A variety of conditions are treated with external beam radiation treatment. Radiation therapy can be the only option available to you in some cases. But the majority of the time, radiation therapy is combined with other cancer treatments like surgery, chemotherapy, and immunotherapy. To increase the likelihood that the procedure will be successful, radiation therapy may be administered prior to, during, or following these other procedures. Depending on the type of cancer being treated and whether radiation therapy is intended to treat the disease or ease symptoms, the timing of when radiation therapy is administered will vary.

When radiation is administered alongside surgery:

  1. To make cancer smaller before surgery so that it can be removed surgically and is less likely to come back.
  2. During surgery, it bypasses the skin and travels directly to cancer. This type of radiation therapy is known as intraoperative radiation. This method makes it simpler for medical professionals to shield neighboring healthy tissues from radiation.
  3. After surgery eliminates any remaining cancer cells.

Stem Cell Transplants 

People who had their blood-forming stem cells destroyed by the high doses of chemotherapy or radiation therapy used to treat some cancers can have their stem cells replaced through stem cell transplant procedures. The fact that blood-forming stem cells can develop into several types of blood cells makes them crucial. The most common blood cell types are:

  1. White blood cells, which are a component of the immune system and aid in the body’s ability to combat infection
  2. Oxygen-carrying red blood cells that circulate through your body
  3. Platelets, which aid in blood clotting.

A needle is inserted into your vein to deliver healthy blood-forming stem cells during a stem cell transplant. The stem cells move to the bone marrow after entering your bloodstream, where they replace the cells that the treatment killed. Bone marrow, blood, or umbilical cord stem cells can all be employed to produce the blood-forming stem cells that are used in transplants. Transplants may include:

  • Autologous
  • Allogeneic
  • Syngeneic

Typically, stem cell transplants don’t directly combat cancer. Instead, they aid in your body’s ability to make stem cells after you’ve received chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or both at extremely high dosages.

However, stem cell transplant may directly combat cancer in cases of multiple myeloma and some forms of leukemia. This occurs as a result of the graft-versus-tumor reaction that might follow allogeneic transplantation. After high-dose therapies, graft-versus-tumor occurs when white blood cells from your donor (the graft) fight any cancer cells that are still present in your body (the tumor). This result enhances the effectiveness of the treatments.

Surgery 

Scalpels, which are tiny, thin blades, are routinely used by surgeons during surgery to make cuts in your body. Cuttings through the skin, muscles, and occasionally bone are common during surgery. After surgery, these wounds can be unpleasant and take some time to heal. During surgery, anesthesia prevents you from feeling any discomfort. Drugs or other chemicals that rob you of feeling or awareness are referred to as anesthetics. Three different forms of anesthesia exist:

  • One specific part of the body experiences a loss of sensation due to local anesthesia.
  • An arm or leg, for example, may lose feeling due to a regional anesthetic.
  • Lack of feeling and total loss of awareness brought on by general anesthesia can appear to be a very deep sleep.

There are different techniques for performing surgery than making knife cuts. A few of these are:

  1. Cryosurgery: In a type of treatment known as cryosurgery, aberrant tissue is destroyed by the use of extremely cold temperatures created by liquid nitrogen or argon gas. Early-stage skin cancer, retinoblastoma, and precancerous growths on the skin and cervix can all be treated with cryosurgery. Cryotherapy is another name for cryosurgery.
  2. Lasers: This method of treatment involves cutting through tissue with strong laser beams. Lasers can be used for precise surgery because they can focus very precisely on small locations. Lasers can also be used to reduce or remove tumors and other growths that could become cancerous. Most frequently, malignancies on the outside of the body or on the interior lining of internal organs are treated using lasers. Examples include basal cell carcinoma, cervical alterations that may progress to cancer, and non-small cell lung cancer as well as cervical, vaginal, esophageal, and cervical cancer.
  3. Hyperthermia: A form of treatment called hyperthermia exposes small patches of the bodily tissue to extremely high temperatures. High temperatures have the potential to harm, kill, or render cancer cells more vulnerable to radiation and specific chemotherapy treatments. One form of hyperthermia that produces heat using high-energy radio waves is radiofrequency ablation.
  4. Photodynamic Therapy: Photodynamic therapy is a type of treatment that uses drugs that react to a certain type of light. When the tumor is exposed to this light, these drugs become active and kill nearby cancer cells. Photodynamic therapy is used most often to treat or relieve symptoms caused by skin cancer, mycosis fungoides, and non-small cell lung cancer.

Targeted Therapy 

A form of cancer treatment known as targeted therapy targets specific proteins that regulate the growth, cell division, and spread of cancer cells. Monoclonal antibodies or small-molecule medications make up the majority of targeted therapy.

  1. Small-molecule medications are employed for targets inside of cells because they can easily enter cells due to their size.
  2. Therapeutic antibodies are another name for the laboratory-made proteins known as monoclonal antibodies. These proteins have been created to bind to particular sites on cancer cells. Some monoclonal antibodies identify cancer cells so that the immune system can more easily identify and eliminate them. Other monoclonal antibodies directly inhibit the growth of cancer cells or trigger their destruction. Others deliver poisons to cancer cells. Become familiar with monoclonal antibodies.

Most forms of targeted therapy work to cure cancer by preventing certain proteins from assisting tumors in growing and dispersing throughout the body. Contrast this with chemotherapy, which frequently kills all rapidly dividing cells. The various ways that targeted treatment treats cancer are:

  1. Help the immune system destroy cancer cells: Because they can hide from your immune system, cancer cells can survive. In order to make it simpler for the immune system to locate and eliminate cancer cells, some targeted medicines can identify cancer cells. Other targeted medicines give your immune system a boost so that it can fight cancer more effectively.
  2. Stop cancer cells from growing by interrupting signals that cause them to grow and divide without order: Your body’s healthy cells typically only divide to create new cells in response to strong signals. The cells are instructed to divide by these signals, which bind to proteins on the cell surface. When your body needs new cells, this procedure aids in their formation. However, some cancer cells contain modifications to the proteins on their surface that instruct them to divide regardless of the presence of signals. By interfering with these proteins, certain targeted medicines stop the cells from receiving the signal to divide. The unchecked growth of cancer is slowed by this procedure.
  3. Stop signals that help form blood vessels: Tumors must undergo the angiogenesis process in order to grow past a certain size. Angiogenesis is triggered by signals the tumor sends. Angiogenesis inhibitors are a class of targeted medications that disrupt these signals to stop the formation of a blood supply. Tumors remain tiny without a blood supply. Alternatively, if a tumor already has a blood supply, these treatments may cause the tumor to contract by killing the blood vessels that supply it.
  4. Deliver cell-killing substances to cancer cells: Certain monoclonal antibodies are mixed with agents that can destroy cells, such as poisons, chemotherapeutic medications, or radiation. These monoclonal antibodies bind to specific locations on the surface of cancer cells, whereupon the cells absorb the cell-killing agents and perish. Without the target, cells won’t suffer any damage.
  5. Cause cancer cell death: When damaged or no longer required, healthy cells pass away in a controlled manner. However, cancer cells are capable of escaping this process of death. Apoptosis, a process of cell death that causes cancer cells to die, can be induced by some targeted medicines.
  6. Starve cancer of hormones it needs to grow: Some prostate and breast cancers need specific hormones to develop. One sort of targeted therapy that has two possible outcomes is hormone therapy. Certain hormone therapies stop your body from producing certain hormones. Cancer cells are among those that stop the hormones from working on your cells.

FAQs on the Treatment of Cancer

Question 1: What is cancer? How does it occur?

Answer:

The uncontrolled and unwelcome proliferation of bodily cells is known as cancer. New cells replace old ones when they die as a result of aging or damage. Sometimes this ongoing process is altered, causing damaged or aberrant cells to proliferate when they shouldn’t. Tumors, which are tissue masses, could develop from these cells.

Question 2: What are the challenges of treating cancer?

Answer:

Treatment for cancer is made more challenging by factors such as patient lifestyle and attitude, individual differences in physiology and rate of drug metabolism, the blood supply to the tumor, physiology of the tumor, and the tumor’s ability to alter over time.

Question 3: What are blood cancers called?

Answer:

A blood cancer called leukemia develops in the bone marrow and blood. It happens when the body produces an excessive number of aberrant white blood cells, interfering with the production of red blood cells and platelets by the bone marrow.

Question 4: What cancers cause high platelets?

Answer:

The additional danger brought on by a high platelet count varies depending on the kind of cancer, with stomach, colon, and lung cancers receiving the most attention.

Question 5: What cancers cause anemia?

Answer:

Tumors that spread to the bone marrow. Blood malignancies including leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma prevent the bone marrow from producing healthy blood cells or even kill it completely. Anemia can also be brought on by other malignancies that have progressed to the bone marrow.

Question 6: What causes a tumor to bleed?

Answer:

As a result of local tumor invasion, aberrant tumor vasculature, or tumor regression, bleeding may be brought on by the malignancy itself. It might also be connected to previous chemotherapy or radiation therapy for cancer.



Last Updated : 13 Jan, 2024
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