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Summary: Cancer affects the body by causing cell growth, which puts pressure on adjacent organs and bodily systems, or causes cells to break off and move to another area of the body. Discover how cancer cells rob nutrients from the body, causing malnutrition, with insight from a doctor in this free video on cancer.
Dr. David Cathcart has been a family doctor and occupational medicine specialist for more than 20 years. He works at Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Mo.read more
"Hi I'm Dr. David Cathcart from Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph, Missouri and we are going to talk a little bit about cancer and how it effects the body. It causes this uncontrollable growth of cells in a particular area that by sheer size of the growth of that cancer puts pressure on adjacent organs or on other systems or those cells can break off and move to another area and then that is the damaging effects of cancer. Ultimately as these cancer cells grow because they require nutrition they tend to rob nutrition from other parts of the body that need it and so essentially we can die from malnutrition. This is Dr. David Cathcart talking about cancer cells."
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