how does the excessive growth of cells during...

[kavi]

How does the excessive growth of cells during cancer effect your body leading even to death?

Cancer is excessive division of cells.but how does it really effect our body?

And why don't cancer cells die by apoptosis?

thank you please clarify

[admin]

Hello Kavi,

We have actually just been learning about this. Cancer eventually infiltrates normal tissue and affects the functioning of major organs. If cancer metastasizes to the brain, liver, kidney or other areas you can die by the cancer literally taking over those areas.

Cancers usually have mutations in their DNA that block apoptosis from occurring. That is why they live longer than normal cells and they also have ways to divide and grow faster than normal.

Hope that answers your question Kavi.
welcome to the forums!

[shadows]

I am in the early stages of cancer, at the last count i had Liver, Lung, Pelvic and Spinal Cancer. 12 months before i found out about this latest bout of this terrible disease i had Bowel Cancer which resulted in the removal of my lower bowel. There really wasn't time for me to have any feelings about the disease or for it to have any effect on my body, as i got rid of it pretty quick. I now have to wear a bag for the rest of my life (which, according to the Doctors, will be around two years).
In regards to this latest cancer, as i said, i am in the early stages, but i am noticing that my hair is starting to fall out due to the chemo, but that is all. When people that know me see me in the street, they comment about how well i look, but i am sure that will change as the disease takes control of my immune system and totally runs rampant through my body.

[americanmalewhite]

one way it does it when you have cancer tumors is the tumors grow very big hogging up the good blood supply and nutrients needed for the body to survive. and as the tumors grow they will crush,push any organ inside the body making it useless,the tumors can pinch veins closed, small and large ones that run throughout our body depleting the body of blood. a tumor is like a monster out of Hollywood it grows as you die . hope this little bit of info helps.

[blueblewaway]

basically you get cells from one organ going around and invading and affecting the function of other organs. if you get metastatic lung cancer, for instance, the lung cells can travel to another organ, and then you've got a small colony of lung cells disrupting what the invaded organ is supposed to be doing. it can also draw nutrients/resources from the bloodstream, and starve the invaded organ. this organ can fail with that kind of disruption. you get multiple organs being affected this way and unfortunately things get very bad very quickly.

[panther_nut]

it can do a number of different things other than what has already been mentioned. the cells are not always excessive division of cells but a mutation of a cell that reproduces its self but not always out of control. the mutated cell can produce hormone and use other body resources like blood supply decrease immunity, disrupt neuro pathways. mutations of cells that divide rapidly are usually the fastest most damaging IE epithelial cells (skin) and testicular ( sperm cells) spread like wild fire.

[GERRY O]

There is no such thing as cancer.Talk to your doctor or get a second opinion.