How does lung cancer kill you?

If you do not want to know how a loved one may physically die from lung cancer, please skip this article altogether. It is simply provided here for those people who wish to have some idea of what may occur and may be hesitant to ask their loved one's oncologist. read more

Lung cancer is a chronic disorder. Lung cancer is the most serious disease among all respiratory diseases. Common symptoms of lung cancer. 1. A cough: a Cough is seen as the primary symptom of lung cancer for two-thirds of patients. read more

What this means is that the amount of cancer tissue present either in the lungs, or regions that lung cancer spreads too (most often the liver, bones, the brain, and the adrenal glands), led to death. read more

Many people have questions about how cancer can kill you. Not all cancers cause death. Firstly, it's important to say that not all cancers kill you. Overall, more than 50% of people diagnosed with cancer live for more than 5 years. Some cancers have survival rates of more than 90%. Cancer at an early stage does not kill you. read more

The spread of lung cancer to the liver can interfere with the liver's ability to do its job of removing toxins from the body, and the buildup of toxins may in turn cause death (this is usually painless, as people slowly become less alert). read more

Or the cancer can block off part of the lung. This part then collapses and often becomes infected. A person with an advanced cancer does not always have the strength to fight off such an infection, even with the help of antibiotics and so the infection can eventually lead to death. read more

The lung cancer can kill you in many different ways at the same time since it causes problems both locally in the lugs and chest cavity and also generalized systemic ones. read more