..or at least, I've never heard of it. Does anyone know?
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think u can!!got this from googleYes. However, heart cancer is extremely rare. The vast majority of heart tumors are noncancerous (benign). A 20-year review of 12,487 consecutive autopsies in Hong Kong identified only seven cases of cardiac tumor 鈥?an incidence of less than 0.1 percent 鈥?most of which were benign. Benign tumors of the heart include myxomas, fibromas, rhabdomyomas and hamartomas. Cancerous (malignant) tumors of the heart are most often sarcomas. Occasionally, cancer can spread to the heart, such as from lymphomas that originate in the structures of the chest near the heart. Other cancers that can spread to the heart include melanomas and sarcomas. Treatment of heart tumors is surgical removal.Cancer can affect the heart in other ways, such as causing damage to the heart valves (marantic endocarditis) or stiffening of the heart muscle (cardiac fibrosis). Cancer treatments can also affect the heart. Certain chemotherapy drugs 鈥?such as anthracyclines, high-dose cytoxan, 5-FU, taxanes, herceptin and IL-2 鈥?can damage the heart. Radiation therapy directed at or near the heart can cause damage to the heart muscle and increase the risk of coronary artery disease later in life.
Probably because the heart is just muscle, and cancer grows on organs or tissues usually. Just a guess!
the heart takes enuff abuse with love lol
i guess its a special organ .
i heard a researcher saying that cancer is not a disease, dont chuck this out.
read it fully.
anyways what happens is that once there is a trauma to a region of the body the body requests the repair of that part.but cancer happens when the brain doesnt send out the signal to stop once when fully repaired.as you can see lung cancer is higher among smokers as smoke damages the lungs.. so a repair intiative happens that fails..
similarly ulcers, in mouth stomach.. and everyother region.where as the heart unlike the head is very much protected by the ribs and its pretty safe from most trauma other than extended use and fat buildup...
so there is no need to repair what aint damaged.
so thats the reason that cancer doesnt occour in heart. although it seems there are occourances but less than a handful of them
The heart can get cancer, but it is extremely rare. Angiosarcoma (also called hemangiosarcoma) is a blood filled tumor occuring in soft tissue. Here is a link if you want to learn more.http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic138.ht...
I have never heard of heart cancer is it rare.
Cancer of the heart muscle called angiosarcoma do occur but are rare n occur more often in children n more often on the right side of the heart.Cancers like melanoma can spread to the heart.This cancerous spread is called metastasis. Moreover cancer is said to occur more commonly in tissues which have actively dividing cells like the bone marrow, skin, etc. Since the heart cells are essentially non-dividing, it can be said that, that is the cause of heart cancer being so rare.
i think i might have the answer.cancer is the overgrowth of cells in our body. and this only apply to those cells which have the capability to regenaerate, of course. and in our body as a whole, we have 2 types of cells - the one which can regenerate like skin cells and the one which cannot regenerate such as cells in the brain and heart.our heart consists of muscles called myocardia. and whenever we don't have the sufficient oxygen supply, then this muscles will be damaged - they will suffer from ischemia or necrosis. once the heart is damaged, the cells cannot regenerate to replace the damaged ones, instead the damaged area is replaced by fibrous tissu or scar tissue.so, based on this fact, i think that's why there' no heart cancer. heart doesn't even has the cells that can be a good potential to be the source of abnormal growth. =) yeah, since our heart cannot regenerate ~ well, that's what i think.and just FYI, the brain too doesn't have cells that can regenerate but stil we can have cancer in the brain. why is that? that's because our brain also composed of supporting cells, the glial cells, apart from the brain cells itself (neurons). this glial cells can regenerate whenever they are damaged and thus becoming the potential source for cancer growth.
One can. My boss died from it. Started in a lung and spread to his heart. Dead 6 weeks after diagnosis.
Its possible to, but I have never heard of anyone having it.
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