By Admin on Sep 5, 2010 in Cancer
can some one tell me why most bone cancer patients get heart problems at the same time?
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The side effects of chemotherapy can be brutal . Certain drugs used can cause major heart problems when used in high doses. It’s a difficult decision for the Dr. to make which chemo to use. Not everyone will have heart complications. Better chemo now is reducing some of the serious side effects.
impurrfect10 | Sep 5, 2010 | Reply
You may be talking about multiple myeloma – one type of bone cancer.
It is cancer of the plasma cells in the bone marrow, which ends up causing bone destruction. Heart attack, kidney failure, and other problems are possible complications due to the cancerous blood cells.
It can be a bit misleading when it is said that someone dies from "cancer". The exact cause of death is not necessarily cancer, but a complication of the cancer like respiratory failure, or kidney failure, or heart failure, and so on. We still tend to say that the person died from cancer, because if they didn’t have the cancer then they obviously wouldn’t have had the heart failure (or whatever it was).
Mike | Sep 5, 2010 | Reply
Almost all cancer treatment patients get heart damage from the treatment. The drugs and radiation are incrediably hard on the entire body. The kidney and liver are also being damaged severaly. Most of the time the damage is not perm, but it can be.
The official cause is never the cancer. It is almost always going to be toxicity (poor kidney/liver infection or drug od which is eventually what happens with the morphine drip), septic shock from infection, suffocation or dry drowning, or cardiac/lung arrest.
With bone cancer, a part of it may be that the treatment targets the bones which means it is also getting the blood. The blood counts drop lower I believe and stay down for longer than other types. My leukemia was the same way and I want to think some of the same drugs are used for some types of bone cancer.
midnightmoon62 | Sep 5, 2010 | Reply