I have a new favorite word for when I feel that something is bothering me, and I’m not sure what it means. It means I’m feeling, or I’m thinking about, an illness. My cousin is battling this for the past several years, and this word is a powerful one for her.
Cancers are cancer cells that have formed from one of the body’s normal cells. At the cellular level they look the same, but they are very different in their biology. At the molecular level, they still contain the normal genes, cell structure, and DNA, but they are now a cancerous cell.
Cancer is an umbrella term for a broad spectrum of diseases of the body. Some cancers are hereditary, and some are acquired and are the result of a very specific event in the body, usually because of radiation or some other illness. When a person contracts cancer, the body begins to divide and reproduce out of control. Cancer cells arise from the normal healthy cells, but they are different, and they are also different from what normal cells should be.
Cancer cells have a tendency to become resistant to treatments. When you put radiation into a cancer patient, you lose a great deal of the normal functioning cells that the body uses to repair itself. These cells that are resistant to the treatment will eventually take over the body, and grow beyond the normal healthy cells, becoming cancerous. We can get cancer cells from a wide variety of sources including the food we eat, the sun, smoking, surgery, radiation, and other illnesses.
A number of studies have linked some of these treatments to the risk for developing a number of cancers, including breast, prostate, and colon cancer. The study that made the biggest splash, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1998, found that many women who are getting radiation therapy for breast cancer are also getting chemotherapy to reduce the size of the tumor.
It’s a little bit like we’re all descendants of a person with cancer. We all inherit the same DNA and the same set of DNA mutations. Our bodies are so complex that there will be plenty of mutations in our DNA, but we won’t all develop cancer. Some of us inherit cancer as a side effect and others don’t. The point is that if we’re going to develop cancer, we should try to learn as much as we can about how we can keep from it.
A lot of people with breast cancer get a “chemo-friendly” form of treatment. They go to a facility where they are given the drug tamoxifen to suppress their tumors. It is supposed to be “chemo-free” because of the genetic damage it causes to the cells. A lot of people in the U.S. have had success with this.
In this video, we are introduced to the concept of cancer, which is the body’s attempt to kill itself. We’ve all suffered from at least one of these, perhaps many. The fact that cancers are hereditary, and that they can be made resistant to treatments, is actually quite a bit of a big deal.
We can look at this gene manipulation and see that it isn’t quite that extreme. The cancer is indeed hereditary, but is only passed on in a few people. And it’s not as if the people who have the mutation are going to be super evil. If I were a cancer patient, I’d be more amenable to genetic therapies than most.
When I was a kid I was diagnosed with a very rare form of cancer called diffuse sclerosing cholangitis. It was extremely rare, and even more so when I was younger. It was a disease that seemed to affect people with all kinds of different blood types, but was extremely rare. It was a terrible disease that was slowly killing me as I got older. And then, when I was in my mid-20s, my disease was discovered.
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