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u/MoldyLunchBoxxy 1d ago
So what is the cancer doing to the skull? It looks like it’s crystallizing the bone somehow.
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u/Dreadphaze 1d ago
Uncontrolled growth. The cells are not dividing normally so they grow in these spire like structures or make the bone "fuzzy". It's very painful.
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u/Hephaestus_God 1d ago
Cancer = Uncontrolled Growth
It doesn’t really “do” anything or have a goal. It just keeps making more of itself.
It doesn’t matter the cancer. For the most part Cancer is just a very broad term to call cells that evolved/mutated in a way that don’t stop producing more of themselves.
So in the bone, it causes these protrusions as the bone continues to grow without any signals telling them to stop.
It’s why cancer is very difficult to “cure”. It’s not really a disease it’s your own bodies cells doing what they normally do to the extreme without stopping
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u/SkywalknLuke 1d ago
Mutated cell that slips through the cracks and keeps replicating. I find it quite fascinating that our bodies have a built in fail device. Was that what evolved to control the population, but modern meds right. It’s a horrible thing I get it, but biology is fucking nuts.
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u/Kurolegacy27 1d ago
That’s not a fail safe, it’s the ultimate nightmare in our biology in which our own biological functions turn against us all because the function that normally tells a cell to die ends up turned off and it continues to replicate with each new cell also missing that function
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u/SkywalknLuke 1d ago
Any autoimmune is then a nightmare in our biology. I look at this replication process, and yes flaws are going to occur when you have exponential replication. Unfortunately, it’s another part of life. We are now educated enough to fight it and battle it, when allowed to.
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u/Butters_999 1h ago
Are you saying that as a mater of fact or... because yes autoimmune is fucking terrifying
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u/cherryreddracula 1d ago
Radiologist here. The underlying tumor causes irritation to the periosteum, the fibrous layer that covers bones. Against irritation, the cells in the periosteum try to create new bone as a stereotyped response to any sort of perceived injury. But when the underlying tumor is aggressive and rapidly growing, sometimes that new reactive bone formation may grow as spicules.
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u/jendet010 1d ago
It caused it to grow tiny spines and splinters that probably pressed on nerves and created a lot of pain
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u/Rockyrox 1d ago
The skull is creating new, mutated cells that basically grow beyond the blueprints.
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u/SassiesSoiledPanties 1d ago
Makes sense bone cancer patients need really strong analgesics. This has to feel excruciating.
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u/gegry123 1d ago
Did this person survive?
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u/CharltonFranklin 1d ago
Their skull is on display. I don't know anyone who has survived with their skull in a display case.
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u/Hephaestus_God 1d ago
I hope they removed their eye to help ease the pain some from seeing. Just imagining moving
their eye and scratching all the protrusions makes me shudder.
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u/OtterGang 1d ago
This and Butterfly Skin disease are the things that made me not believe in God. Just suffering in its base form.
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u/BourbonInGinger 19h ago
Yeah, how come we don’t see god healing this horrible disease, nor does he heal amputees.
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u/DylanTheV1llain 1d ago
Especially around the fucking orbital? Pressing up on nerves around the eye.
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u/Simp_Collector1 1d ago
Just seeing what this person went through is enough to bring someone to tears. My heart still hurts from reading the stories on the last post about bone cancer. Screw cancer!!!