This Tuesday, September 24, 2024, the death of the former mayor of Marbella and ex-partner of Isabel Pantoja, Julián Muñoz, was announced at the age of 76. The famous man was diagnosed with cancer a long time ago, a disease that he himself called it a “galloping cancer.”
More specifically, it was a lung cancerone of the most common and deadly cancers recorded in Spain. Specifically, according to the latest data collected by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), bronchial and pulmonary cancers, which represent the same category, They are the third leading cause of death in our country.In 2023, out of a total of 433,163 deaths, 22,717 deaths were due to this disease, just behind heart disease and cerebrovascular disease.
Lung cancer, a “galloping cancer”
Knowing that Julián Muñoz suffered from lung cancer, he called his illness galloping cancer. This term directly refers to advanced cancer or metastatic cancer: “The notion of advanced cancer is most frequently used to refer to cases of cancer for which a cure is not possible”indicate from the American Cancer Society.
From the same source, they differentiate between advanced and metastatic cancers. Specifically, the first of them “is used to describe a cancer that has developed outside the organ in which it originated, but has not yet spread to distant parts of the body.” On the other hand, metastatic or metastatic cancer refers to a “cancer that has spread from where it originated to other parts of the body.
From the National Cancer Institute, they explain that “Cancer that spreads from where it started to a distant part of the body is called metastatic cancer. In many types of cancer, it is also called stage IV (stage 4) cancer.”
More specifically, cancer cells spread throughout the body in several stages. First, they can appear in nearby normal tissues or invade these tissues. At the same time, can pass through the walls of the lymph nodes lymphatics or blood vessels nearby and travel through the lymphatic system and bloodstream to other parts of the body. Cancer cells stop in small blood vessels at distant sites and invade walls of blood vessels and penetrate into the tissues surrounding them. They then grow into the tissues to form a very small tumor and cause new blood vessels to form, allowing the metastatic tumor to receive blood and continue to grow.
