Can bone cancer cause diarrhea?

1 answer | Last updated: Oct 01, 2010
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Can bone cancer cause diarrhea?
 

HughS74 said...

It is not the bone cancer itself that causes diarrhea as much as the chemotherapy treatment associated with bone cancer. Chemotherapy causes the tumor cells to die but it also causes rapidly dividing normal cells, such as those found lining the stomach and colon, to die. The large scale death of these cells leads to diarrhea.

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