Jack Layton dies at 61

[Yeah_Baby]

Jack shirts? Naw, we already have shirts for the Greatest Canadian.

[Canuck-Hater]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Regarding cancer, what is the usual cause of death? What is the pathology here? Death from cancer always seems so sudden. One week ago, Layton was still talking to people, a week later, he was dead.

What is the actual acute cause of death when suffering from cancer? What brings about the "turn for the worse"?

Well the Cancer for starters, and Im guessing malnutrition because its impossible to digest anything during chemo therapy as I understand.

[Blaster86]

Originally Posted by moon

Preston manning is/was a great Canadian/person trying to make this country better.

Layton is a scumbag with a horrible disease that did everything he could to make this country a worse place to live.

trolololololololol

[jayswin]

Originally Posted by Blaster86

trolololololololol

I believe you mean.....

[Nehkara]

I don't think I have posted in here yet, mostly because I was quite upset by Jack Layton's passing. I will miss him.

R.I.P. Jack.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Regarding cancer, what is the usual cause of death? What is the pathology here? Death from cancer always seems so sudden. One week ago, Layton was still talking to people, a week later, he was dead.

What is the actual acute cause of death when suffering from cancer? What brings about the "turn for the worse"?

I can only speak from personal experience, but my grandmother died from cancer, it was the radiation that made her so sick she couldn't eat. She withered away for a fairly long time as I recall ( I was only 5-6 pr so)

My dad died when the cancer spread from his lungs to his liver and his liver shut down. It was then game over within a couple days.

[Sidney Crosby's Hat]

I found it interesting that when they announced Layton had cancer again, it was only stated as being a "new" cancer and what that cancer was has never been disclosed.

Makes you wonder if the prostate cancer was ever cured or if they just kept it quiet that treatments weren't going well to push him past the election.

[Daradon]

Cancer can be weird like that, it spreads pretty easily, and can hide in early stages.

It could have possibly been a new one. OR maybe not.

As well, with what I know of cancer, which also isn't a ton, when the cancer has grown to terminal stages, it shuts down the functions of the organs it's affecting.

[HOZ]

Originally Posted by Daradon

Cancer can be weird like that, it spreads pretty easily, and can hide in early stages.

It could have possibly been a new one. OR maybe not.

As well, with what I know of cancer, which also isn't a ton, when the cancer has grown to terminal stages, it shuts down the functions of the organs it's affecting.

I am no cancer expert either but my experience with family, friends, co-workers is that cancer is very rarely/never cured! With our current "limitations" (technology/knowledge) people can be "cleared" of cancer only to have return within months.

[Daradon]

Yeah I don't have a ton of experience with it either, but I did have a grandfather that died from it when I was 7. I remember because it was days before my birthday. Probably not something that would make a difference one way or the other to an adult, but at 7 it really sucked. Anyway, he had lung cancer from smoking, and this was before a lot of imaging technology and such, and so they opened him up to take care of the big tumor they knew he had in his lungs, and once inside apparently there was cancer EVERYWHERE. Once it gets on the move it can be nearly impossible to stop. More so back then. They didn't even bother removing the original tumor it was so bad.

He was 57 so while not young, it was definitely early to die.

There are better options now, and the biggest thing is it's much easier to prevent or catch early. But once you have a bad case, there's always a chance for it to come back. Sometimes in the exact spot it was, sometimes in a completely different spot.

Although we've come a long way now, I have noticed that many people will 'beat' cancer, only for it to show up again a few years down the road and it gets them the second or even third time. That's happened to a few people I knew, or knew of. Again, it could be the same cancer in the same place, the same cancer that's spread to a new place, or a completely new cancer.