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Why can't you get heart cancer?

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Why can't you get cancer in your heart? You hear of lung cancer, liver cancer prostate cancer, but you never hear of heart cancer.
Ann, Edgware

Answer

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Name: Andy, Edinburgh
Qualification: I worked in a Cardiac Surgery department
Answer: It does exist. There are two people I know of who died of it - Catherine of Aragon and one of the drummers from Kiss. The reason it is little-known is that the heart is a muscle, so it doesn't regenerate like a liver or lung does, therefore the cancer cannot spread as easily.