How cancer kills

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  • Obstruction of hollow organs
    • Gastrointestinal tract tumor
    • prevent the digestion of food and absorption of nutrients
    • The tumor also can cause blockage of the digestive system
  • Cachexia and infection
    • One of the symptoms most commonly associated with the late stages of malignancy is termed “cachexia”wasted and weak
    • results from starvation and weakness
  • Cachexia and infection
    • The immediate cause of death = infection, even with massive antibiotic therapy
    • saprophytic organism(organisms that grow on dead organic matter)that normally live in the mouth/ nose --> invade the patient --> cause pneumonia, septicemia (blood infection), and death
  • Tumor = underlying cause
    Infection = Immediate cause of death (terminal cancer)