Can a body fight off cancer without going to a hospital fo treatment?
Just want to know if the immune system is capeable of this.
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The medical profession will tell you no but I don't think anyone in that situation has lived long enough to prove different.
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It's not unheard of, but it would be foolish to rely on it. In a VERY few cases a cancer may disappear without any treatment. This spontaneous remission is very rare indeed. William Boyd, a pathologist, documented a large number of such instances in a book he published in 1961. He estimated that approx one in every 100,000 cases of cancer will show spontaneous remission. In his documentation collected from data extending over 100 years, more than half the proven cases of spontaneous remission came from four types of tumour: renal-cell cancer, melanoma, neuroblastoma and choriocarcinoma. In the other half of the cases, there were one or two examples in almost every type of cancer. So yes it̢۪s possible but beyond unlikely.
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Of course. It happens every day - unknown to the human. That is part of the normal human (or other animals) immune system's function. Many people develop malignant cells, and their immune system kills them early. These people never know they had a single cell go haywire. They never wind up in a hospital. It takes one billion cancer cells to make a tumor mass the size of a marble - 1 cm diameter. A one centimeter mass is never symptomatic. It is when the immune system is overwhelmed or drops its guard that cancers may advance. In very rare cases we see an advanced renal cell carcinoma or a melanoma regress from the body's immune system finally putting up a fight. - - - - lo_mcg's answer is excellent as always.
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No
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Your immune system will not attack cancer because it's your body's own cells and it won't recognize these cells as foreign therefore, it will not attack the cancer. That's what makes it so bad, I don't think it's wise to go without treatments. I wouldn't be here to answer this if I went without treatments.
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