how does lung cancer prevent some one from maintaining homeostasis
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cancer is weird, it acts in alot of different ways, thats the problem in answering your question, there are multiple ways cancer can effect someone. Youd have to know how the cancer is acting in order to predict how it would prevent you from doing that, it could even go so far as to penetrate the blood-brain barrier get into your hypothalamus and complete cut homeostasis out
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Tumors often produce hormones, mainly to encourage their own cancer cells to divide, but often due to gene amplification resulting in large amounts of a hormone being made. These can increase metabolism causing weight-loss and also have various endocrine affects. More so this would be the case when lung cancer is due to a lung Adenoma which is a cancer of glandular tissue. The tumor also diverts blood supply and nutrients to its own high metabolic tumor cells (no wonder lung cancer patients loose weight!). Metastatic tumors arising from the lung cancer can affect the function of other organs and how they work, spread to bones could affect the bone marrow and heamopoiesis (blood cell formation and differentiation). Spread to brain could cause brain disorders and psychological problems, arising from neurological problems and these may affect homeostasis, blood pressure etc.
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