it seems to me that every organ in the body is a candidate for cancer…lungs, stomach, skin, throat, brain, etc. But i have never heard of heart cancer. Is there no such thing? Why not? Is it because the heart is really a muscle (although that begs the question why muscles don’t get cancer)?
While it’s true that malignant heart and muscle cancers and especially common, that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. Just they tend to be more benign than many other types. The uterus, don’t forget, is also a muscular structure, where leiomyosarcomas are not particularly rare.
Heart tumours are often found since they obstruct flow; myxomas tend to impede valve function. Muscular tumours also include rhabdomyosarcomas, Ewing’s sarcoma and suchlike.
So your premise is not exactly true.
Pap, MD.
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Sister in law had it as a complication of Lupus.