The Guardian have provided an interesting article on what happens to a person's body when they are dying of cancer.
It looks at the mechanisms that cause death, the physiological changes, the changes to the immune system, and the observations by cancer nurses dealing with end of life care.
Read more about this thought provoking topic in The Guardian, in association with Cancer Research UK.
How do we die of cancer? What we know (and what we don't) by Katharine Latham