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How does the body die from cancer

July 12, 2015
Est. Reading: 4 minutes

How does the body die from cancer?How does the body die from cancer

When a cancer cell is killed or dies, an immune response occurs. It means many things that are involved with the immune system are happening. One of the body's many partners in the immune system is the macrophage cell.

A macrophage cell can detect dead cells through smell, much like a scavenger bird detects dead animals. Whenever dead cells reach the part of the bloodstream patrolled by a macrophage, the macrophages surround them and convert dead cancer cells into easily removed components called "Efferocytosis."

All living (human) cells have a "cell membrane" around their outside that separates them from each other and all the other stuff in our tissues. Also, cells have "organelles" inside them (a nucleus, mitochondria, ribosomes, lysosomes, endoplasmic reticulum, etc.), and membranes surround some structures.

The membranes are critical because they keep everything in its place. Imagine a zip-lock bag that keeps stuff separated in your picnic cooler. The membranes around the lysosomes are vital because they contain the enzymes that cells use to digest their food.

Okay, so what happens after a cell dies?

(There are two main ways a cell can die ~ necrosis or apoptosis). Regardless of what causes a cell to die, whether it's a lack of oxygen, physical damage, chemical poisoning, energy starvation, nutrient overload, etc., the outcome will be the same.

All the biochemical pathways that allowed the cell to perform its normal functions and what held it together physically will stop when it dies. Those membranes around the outside of the cell and on the inside (keeping all those innards separated) will become leaky. That leakiness will allow enzymes and chemicals inside the cell to leak out, and other chemicals and fluids that are supposed to stay outside the cell will pass in.

The zip-lock baggies full of enzymes (the lysosomes) will ooze, and their contents will begin to digest the cell's insides. The chromosomes arranged so nicely in the cell's nucleus will break into small pieces. Proteins in the cell (and there are lots of proteins) will "denature." The chemical bonds in the proteins will fall apart, causing them to lose their standard shape and get all wadded up. (Think of what happens when you fry an egg. The denaturation of all that protein is ongoing, and the lipid membranes will continue to degrade.

An Immune Response Begins

While all this happens inside the cell, the stuff leaking out will attract scavengers. In this case, the scavengers are white blood cells whose job is to eat (literally) and digest dead things such as dead cells and cell debris. Two main types of cells do that: neutrophils and macrophages called "phagocytes."

The neutrophils almost always come from the blood and reach dead cells first. Neutrophils squeeze through the blood vessel walls and move to where the dead cells are. Macrophages take a little longer to arrive and come from the blood, but there are also lots of macrophage-type cells already in the body's tissues (in addition to those in the blood). They're like resident garbage collectors. Chemical signals released by the dying/dead cells attract neutrophils and macrophages.

Once the neutrophils and macrophages (the phagocytes) get to where the dead cells are, they start eating them.

By then, not much will be left of the dead cells except random chunks and hollowed-out (digested) bags filled with molecular slush. So, it's usually not difficult for the phagocytes to completely eat and digest that debris. Everything gets recycled: all the proteins and sugars, the nucleic acids, the energy-containing components, all of it gets reused by other cells.

Nothing goes to waste. Dead cancer cells are as tasty to a phagocyte as any other type of dead cell.
Once macrophages have digested the dead cells, they cannot "re-enter the bloodstream" because digestion breaks down the chunks into individual chemical components (amino acids, lipids, sugars, minerals).

The dead cells will not pass into the intestinal tract for disposal. All that stuff in the lower intestinal tract is stuff we've eaten but have not digested and absorbed, like plant fibers (cellulose, lignin) and intestinal bacteria. The cells in the wall of the intestine will add a little mucus and some water to slide things along more quickly. And, as those intestinal cells grow old and die, they will be sloughed off into the intestinal contents.

Dead cancer cells will not get flushed down your toilet, just unwanted waste from the dead cancer cells. It happens every day to dead normal cells and dead cancer cells that are moved from the immune system through the intestine, kidney, and liver as a result of "Slough" (A layer or mass of dead tissue separated from surrounding living tissue, as in a wound, sore, or inflammation).

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