My understanding of cancer is that an organ’s cells tgo rogue. It starts to multiply uncontrollably and this affects certain functions of that organ. Moreover, this behaviour spreads to other organs resulting in uncontrollable cell multiplication of that organ and so on.
What I don’t understand is how does the uncontrolled cell multiplication of one organ “spread” to another wherein that impacted organ also begins to show this behaviour? How can say breast cells impact lungs by spreading to them considering they are both different organs, functions, cells.
In: Biology
Its not an organ its cells as you pointed out yourself. And cells are just smal specs of tissue that can float in your blood.
Cancer might form from the cells of some specific organ, but the cells can then move to any place of your body.
They dont “infect” other organs, they just land there, they are still cells that originaly belonged to the old organ.
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