Is there such thing as heart cancer?

Cancers that begin near the heart, such as lung cancer, can grow to involve the heart or the lining around the heart (pericardial sac). Or cancer can begin elsewhere in the body and spread to the heart through the bloodstream. Cancers that may affect the heart include breast cancer, kidney cancer, lung cancer, leukemia, lymphoma and melanoma, among others. Cancer can affect the heart in other ways, as well. read more

You never hear of heart cancer. That's because it rarely starts there. But the fact is that at end-stage cancer, there are actually cancer cells embedded in the heart quite frequently, which should not surprise us since cancers love energy-carrying blood. read more

There is such a thing as heart cancer. I had a benign heart tumor (Myxoma) removed from my heart a few years ago. I was lucky in that it was benign and they caught it in time because it would certainly have killed me. read more