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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.