Why is cancer painful at the end?

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asked Jan 26, 2024 in Diseases Conditions by Gorbellas8 (1,880 points)
Why is cancer painful at the end?

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answered May 25, 2024 by Pinkpanther (6,650 points)
The reason cancer is painful at the end is because most cancers are caused by the tumor pressing on the bones, nerves or other organs in the body.

Sometimes the pain with cancer is caused by the cancer treatment such as chemotherapy drugs that can cause tingling and numbness in your feet and hands.

The hardest cancers to get rid of are stomach cancer, ovarian cancer, brain cancer and other nervous system cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, lung cancer and bronchus cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cancer and intrahepatic bile duct cancer and pancreatic cancer.

The top 5 deadliest cancers are colorectal cancer, prostate cancer, bronchus cancer, lung cancer and breast cancer.

The most aggressive cancers are prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer and lung cancer.

The easiest cancers to recover from are Hodgkin Lymphoma, cervical cancer, Melanoma, Thyroid cancer, Testicular cancer, breast cancer and prostate cancer.

The top 3 most curable cancers are skin cancers, breast cancers and prostate cancers.

Testes cancer and thyroid cancers are also most curable cancers.

The cancers that are most likely to recur are cancers caused by use of tobacco, oral cancer, tongue cancer, bladder cancer, pancreas cancer, soft tissue sarcoma, brain cancer and glioblastoma also a type of brain cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma and childhood cancers.

The worst cancers to treat are brain cancer, ovary cancer, liver and intrahepatic bile duct cancer, leukemia, prostate cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, colorectal cancer and pancreatic cancer.

The 2 least treatable cancers are liver cancer and pancreatic cancer.

Esophageal cancer is also a least treatable cancer.

The hardest cancer to cure is pancreatic cancer and stomach cancer as well as lung cancer.

The top deadliest cancers are bronchus cancer and lung cancer which is responsible for most deaths from cancer.

125,070 people die of either bronchus cancer or lung cancer a year although the amount of people that die from the cancers a year varies.

The next next deadliest cancer is colorectal cancer and pancreatic cancer is the 3rd deadliest cancer that causes around 51,750 deaths.

What all cancers have in common is the overgrowth of cells which are tiny units that make up all living things.

Cancer occurs when the cells begin to grow and then multiply in an uncontrolled way.

The kind of cancer that has the lowest survival rate is pancreatic cancer which is the most feared cancer because it has a very high mortality rate.

Your pancreas is the organ which plays an important role in the body and more specifically in the process of digesting food.

The cancers that are not curable are brain cancer, nervous system, cancer, stomach cancer, Ovarian cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, lung cancer and bronchus cancer, esophageal cancer, liver cancer and intrahepatic bile duct cancer and pancreatic cancer.

The deadliest cancer that cannot be cured is glioblastoma as well as pancreatic cancer, Mesothelioma and esophageal cancer.

The deadliest cancer is lung and bronchus cancer followed by brain cancer or glioblastoma.

Pancreatic cancer is also the 3rd deadliest cancer which causes around 50,550 deaths.

Brain cancer is one of the worst cancers and is also one of the hardest cancers to cure which is the 10th leading cause of death for women and men.

Glioblastoma is the most aggressive brain cancer and neurofibroma is the least aggressive brain cancer.

The fastest spreading brain cancer is glioblastoma which is also known as grade IV astrocytoma which is the fastest growing and most aggressive brain cancer.

Glioblastoma brain cancer invades the nearby tissue although it does not generally spread to distant organs.

Some brain cancers are curable if they can be completely removed by most brain cancers are not curable.

The outcome of malignant brain cancer tumors depend on how slowly or how quickly the brain cancer tumor develops and how well it responds to treatment.

Brain cancer is almost always 100% fatal as it's very hard to cure.

However there have been a few people that have beat brain cancer and survived but most people with brain cancer die within 5 years to 10 years in most cases.

The longest anyone has survived glioblastoma brain cancer was more than 20 years.

The deadliest type of brain cancer is Glioblastoma which is also known as glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).

Glioblastoma is the most common and most aggressive form of brain cancer and has a very poor prognosis in survival.

The symptoms of Glioblastoma brain cancer include speech difficulty, memory loss, weakness on one side of the body, changes in your personality, drowsiness, vomiting and nausea, seizures and headaches.

Your life expectancy with brain cancer is between 5 years to 10 years depending on how far progressed the brain cancer is at diagnoses.

In some cases people may die within 1 to 2 years with brain cancer and others with brain cancer survive 5 to 10 years.

Brain cancer is a terminal cancer because even with treatment it is very hard to cure.

Some people have survived brain cancer with treatment but it's rare and can even come back even after having surgery.

The brain tumor that has the worst prognosis is Glioblastoma multiforme which is the most aggressive and most common primary intracranial tumor.

Even with modern therapies and treatments it is still fatal with very poor prognosis with a median survival of 14 months.

The signs that cancer has spread to the brain are.

Headache, sometimes with vomiting or nausea.
Mental changes, such as increasing memory problems.
Seizures.
Weakness or numbness on one side of the body.
Numbness.
Balance and coordination issues.
Headaches that are sometimes accompanied by nausea or vomiting.
Dizziness.
Cognitive impairment, including confusion, memory loss and personality changes.

Once cancer spreads to the brain you usually have up to 6 months to live without treatment.

With treatment you may live a few years or even longer once cancer spreads to the brain.

Once cancer spreads to the brain the cancer puts pressure on the brain and the cancer changes the function of the surrounding brain tissue which then causes symptoms such as headache, personality changes, memory loss and seizures.

The symptoms of end stage brain cancer include.

    Frequent headaches.
    Agitation and delirium.
    Agonal breathing (gasping breaths that occur when a person is struggling to breathe)
    Prolonged confusion.
    Hallucinations.
    Loss of appetite.
    Vision loss.
    Involuntary movements.

The final stages of metastatic brain cancer are drowsiness, headaches, cognitive and personality changes, poor communication, seizures, delirium (confusion and difficulty thinking), focal neurological symptoms, and dysphagia.

Metastatic brain cancer (also called secondary brain tumors) is caused by cancer cells spreading (metastasizing) to the brain from a different part of the body.

The most common types of cancer that can spread to the brain are cancers of the lung, breast, skin (melanoma), colon, kidney and thyroid gland.

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