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?
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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