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Often people get a drastic weight loss just before being diagnosed with cancer and in fact sudden weight loss is a cancer danger signal. Since all cancers are not gastric in origin, yet the weight loss seems to be common wherever in the body the cancer eventually turns out to be, what is it that causes weight to drop off?

I don’t mean a side effect of chemo or radiation therapy, I mean does having a tumor (malignant or benign) usually lead to weight loss? Or would something else be the cause.

My wife has stage IV kidney cancer.Lately she has been losing weight,even though her latest scans show stable disease.Just wondering what is it about cancer that causes weight loss?

I have to give a chemistry project tomorrow in class and I need to have a basic understanding of what goes on chemically between chemotherapy drugs and the cancerous cells. Like what element interacts with what and how the chemo drugs stop the cancer cells from replicating. If anyone even has a most basic chemical explanation as to what occurs I would really appreciate it.

Can cancer be so hereditary as to skip every other generation in a family? On my dad’s side of the family it seems like it does. Both my great grandmothers on my father’s side had cancer (breast cancer and another type) and a great grandfather had cancer as well. My grandparents did not have cancer. My father ended up having cancer out of the three of my grandparents children. Me nor any of my cousins have had cancer. Is it possible any of our children will?

What is the risk to nurses working in the cancer field (oncology) due to their proximity to cancer causing drugs and radiation and chemotherapy? I am hearing stories of many oncology nurses loosing their hair?

My co-worker’s brother has cancer, and Cancer Treatment Centers of America is not accepted by his insurance. What other options are available?

I know close to nothing about cancer. My mum has been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and from the state she is in, my view is that it is too late for any treatment. (Sorry for being vague here, I find it too difficult to describe her body. She is physically extremely weak already).
All sorts of tests are being done currently to assess the situation. Before the doctors give us some feed back, I am just wondering if anybody has experiences to relate. Also, do you know of people who have been saved with chemio “at the last minute”? (In her case, it is too late for all other treatments, as doctors told her). Thank you.

I know that a similarity would be cells regenerate, and a difference would be cancer cells grow uncontrollably.
Is there anything else?

I don’t understand Cancer I guess. He was a chain smoker, and in an interview he said that he got Mouth cancer from a metal pick he would hold in his lips. Not from the smoking. How do you get cancer from metal?
Can someone explain this a little?