Eli5; How does cancer kill you?

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My mother died of bowel cancer when I was a teenager, it has spread to her bladder, lungs and liver. I still wonder how it actually killed her. What went wrong that stopped her heart pumping and lungs breathing?

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Cancer kills by interfering with the normal, necessary function of organs and bodily processes, whether directly – by invading the organ tissue, or by crowding it out, or indirectly by growing so large it steals blood flow from necessary tissues.

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