• Question: what would you say is the most deadly type of cancer?

    Asked by rawrimjo to Charlotte, Dhvanil, Frank, Jim, Leila on 18 Mar 2013.
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      Jim O Doherty answered on 18 Mar 2013:

      we have seen brain cancer called a “glioblastoma” quite often, it doesn’t have any symptoms until its enormous, and its extremly aggressive and grows on your brain very very fast. The brain is a bad place to have cancer as it doesn’t heal itself when damaged, its hard to get drugs in there and also the tumour cells are very resistant to treatment. That one is definitely one of the worst

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      Dhvanil Karia answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      I would say leukaemia is one of the worst/deadly types cancers. It basically means cancer of blood/bone marrow. It is deadly as it spreads throughout the body and is certainly out of control. Also as it is in the bones too the overall quality of life of the patient is becomes very poor with the last stages being extremely painful. Further, life expectancy of the patient is very very short too.

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      Leila Nichol answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      Bowel and pancreas cancer also have fairly low survival rates. The earlier you can detect a tumour though, the better chance of survival

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      Charlotte Kemp answered on 19 Mar 2013:

      The most deadly ones are those that don’t give you any symptoms until they are really large and have spread elsewhere in the body. That makes them incredibly difficult to treat and so harder to recover from.

    • Photo: Frank Soboczenski

      Frank Soboczenski answered on 20 Mar 2013:

      Leukemia I think is the most deadly type of cancer as it affects the blood and bones. It is very painful and sadly many patients are very poor to most of the treatment stages.

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