To throw another reference into the discussion, section 1.8 of McKinnell et al.’s The Biological Basis of Cancer spends a few pages on this. Summary: cancers can cause organ failure, but because the body has “an enormous reserve of normal tissue plus a built-in mechanism to regenerate more” organ failure is not usually the proximate cause of (edit: non-leukaemia) cancer death; the most common cause of death is instead cachexia (wasting) and hence infection.
To throw another reference into the discussion, section 1.8 of McKinnell et al.’s The Biological Basis of Cancer spends a few pages on this. Summary: cancers can cause organ failure, but because the body has “an enormous reserve of normal tissue plus a built-in mechanism to regenerate more” organ failure is not usually the proximate cause of (edit: non-leukaemia) cancer death; the most common cause of death is instead cachexia (wasting) and hence infection.