COP-OUT, RIGHT UP FRONT:
Please understand that I know exactly diddly-biscuit about cancer research. The geniuses who have devoted themselves to the study of this horrific disease are heroes. I wish IN NO WAY to suggest that I have knowledge that even approaches what is known among cancer researchers, and the medical professionals who work so tirelessly to combat this nightmare. What I have is too much time to think, and an imagination that provides me with ideas that I like to expand upon.
The following is just such an idea. I only wish to record it here so that, in future, if I happen by merest chance to have hit close to the mark, I can point this blog entry out to friends, and crow about my brilliant insight. If I am way off base, I will quietly delete this, and deny ever having had such barmy notions.
MY BRILLIANT THEORY CONCERNING CANCER-CAUSATION (Which, by the way, I have been mulling over for well over a decade.)
My brilliant theory, if you care to read on, is: cancer results, when the body’s defenses are activated to combat a threat. Human immune mechanisms, as I understand them, were designed primarily fighting mechanism. The troops rush to the scene of the infection, and with or without the aid of antibiotics, batter away at it until it is dead, and the body is once again safe.
However, when the irritant that sets the immune response in motion is non-organic, it leaves all those angry troops (mostly white blood cells? I don’t know exactly, but whatever the body uses as warriors) with nothing to attack. The troops see the irritation, and know therefore that “infection” is present. Unable to find the foreign matter to attack, the troops turn instead to the least healthy of the local domestic tissues. The irritation itself, therefore, becomes the enemy, and the more the troops attack, the more irritated the area becomes. Somehow, this becomes unstoppable, and the body’s troops become a hostile invading army, destroying the body’s own cells, and killing the host off gradually.
WHAT DO I MEAN BY A NON-ORGANIC IRRITANT?
Cigarette Smoke or asbestos in the lungs that may lead to lung cancer,
Head injury that may lead to lymphoma or cranial tumor,
A woman who does not breast feed (painful!) who later gets breast cancer,
The sun-worshipper who develops skin cancer,
Alcoholism and liver disease,
I bet that someone in the medical field would be able to think of MANY more ideas!
— HERE’S WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR! —
The means of prevention, therefore, is to introduce into areas subject to irritants (such as those listed above), a foreign bacteria for the body to fight and defeat, as soon as possible following exposure to a known carcinogen. This may sicken, temporarily, the host subject, but will prevent the otherwise likely initiation of the cancer development process, by giving the body’s warriors something to attack and kill, thereby allowing them to complete their mission, and return to stand-by status.
There. What do you think?
THEPVZ 