When somebody dies of cancer, what exactly is the actual reason the body stops working?
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Common things seen inpatient at a hospital
– you get septic because tumor invades non sterile space (intestine) and you get a blood stream infection
– Brain invasion=> stroke, mass effect among other things
– Electrolyte derangement (High or low potassium etc) cause heart to go int arrhythmia
– Youre weak from chemo, immune system down, you get septic from pneumonia or something else that would often be trivial like UTI
– Clots in the vascular system causing stroke or pulmonary embolism, or just blockage of blood flow in general. The later will cause organs to individually shut down slowly
– Blood loss/anemia from bleeding into intestine or abdomen. Or bone marrow shuts down from chemo plus you not eating and being weak
or a combo of the above
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