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Wednesday, March 11, 2020

101. Cancer - Explained

Cancer is a disease where cells began to strangely grow and mutate to invade and spread around the body.

It can mimic the original organs to penetrate the body, and spread to nearby body structures, even to other sites of the body. It grows bigger, stronger and interrupts the host's organs to function properly. Finally, the body succumbs to this mutation (read: cancer) and die.

This is a familiar situation with what's been depicted in movies like Alien vs Predator with Alien being the cancer cells and predator being the cancer cure treatment, zombies who spread exponentially just like cancer cells do, or X-Men who mutate their genes just like cancer cells do.

Tumour cell is a lump, just like cancer cells, but it won't spread to other site of the body. It stays there.

Here is a tumour we normally see:


Here's a tumour cell inside our body, just to give you an image of what a cancer cell looks like inside.


Here's a look at colon cancer (you know this one spreads, right):

Can you see it's like canker sores, and it spreads, and it's massive, and it can penetrate our organs? That's why, when we undergo operation to remove cancer cells, normally the doctors can't help it but to also take some of our meat along.


How to cure? We can't because it's inside our organs. One way is to weaken the cancer cells, by radiation, which also weakens the host. Can we starve cancer cells? No, we can't.

You see, our cells divide itself into two daughter cells automatically. They don't need to eat, they just reproduce itself. The parent cell divides itself into two daughter cells, to fix a broken cell (replace cells that are about to die), or for other purposes. Healthy cells stop producing when there's enough daughter cells. Cancer cells can't stop producing, they just keep regenerating and spreading and fill the whole body and more.

Some people say, cancer cells become more fierce when a knife cuts it through operation. That's because the cancer cells feel a lot of their parts have been missing, and so, they speed up their regeneration process (read: to fix broken cells or heal themselves).

Scientists are still looking for ways to cure cancer once and for all, and for the time being, all we need to do is to decrease the risk of cancer cells playing naughty in our body.

The consumption of more vegetables, fruit, whole grains and fish should lower the risk. Besides, it is also recommended to:
  • Quit smoking
  • Quit drinking alcohol
  • Quit mating with different partners
  • Quit eating processed food, like sausage, bacon, ham, etc
  • Eat balanced healthy food
  • Have a balanced body weight
  • Exercise regularly
  • Move away from polluted area (i.e., smoke polluted area, nuclear polluted area, etc)


Stay Healthy with Information About Cancer

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