Prevent Cancer: Dont Let Terrorist Cells Take over Your Body

Cancer starts in a very small way when one cell changes in a significant way, becomes a minor criminal and stops obeying the normal rules of cell order and behavior. It is very much like the situation in Society when one person decides to break the rules and behave in an antisocial way. At first there may be a very minor disruption but there is only so much that one petty criminal can do on his or her own. However, if the criminal builds up a group with identical antisocial values and behaviors and then this group expands and adopts extra negative characteristics, eventually the group can start creating havoc. That havoc first occurs within a localized area but in time if the group grows in strength, the disruption can start having impact at national and even international levels.

Metastatic, invasive cancer, is the equivalent of a terrorist organisation causing major disruptions to a nation’s transport and communication systems. It may take over key functions and eventually bring the nation to its knees.

Cancer starts when the genetic material of a single cell is damaged. In most cases this damage has no effect until that cell divides into two cells. At this stage the cell might have the ability to break one of the body’s critical rules. Having broken the first rule, the cell might be able to continue to divide forming 4 and then 8 renegade cells.

The body, like Society, has a Police Force. It is called the Immune System. It has some ability to recognize misbehaving cells but like a Police Force it might not recognize minor misdemeanors. In fact the Immune System might not be alerted that a problem is brewing until the renegade cells step further out of line. In biological terms, this might occur when the cells undergo further changes and start breaking more rules. The initial rebel cells are likely to step out of the picture at this stage whilst later generations of despot cells start to wreck havoc.

Using this analogy it is easy to see that cancer has the following characteristics:

• It starts with a single cell. The genes of that normal cell are changed in some important way by a process that is called MUTATION (a word that means change). This change affects one of the many systems relating to the rules of cell behavior. Since there are a great many different systems controlling cell behavior, there are a great many different mutations that can occur.
• The single altered cell has no impact until it divides. This stage of the process is called CANCER PROMOTION. A group of renegade cells is formed but at the early stage these cells might not have broken enough rules for them to be recognized by the body’s Immune System.
• Like criminals, renegade cells tend to progress to a worse stage. This progression occurs through the destabilization of cell division and is called CANCER PROGRESSION. During this phase the population of cells is able to try out many different rule breaking activities. Under these unstable conditions the “gang” of cells throws up a variety of combinations of bad behavior until it finds the ones that best defeat the surveillance systems.

In order to prevent cancer, we need to understand all the environmental and lifestyle factors that affect these activities of renegade cells. Many of these are already known. There has been a great deal of research into these matters but generally it is not explained in a simple enough manner. It is possible both to identify and avoid the factors that promote each one of these stages and it is also possible to eat certain foods or adopt certain behaviors to counteract these activities. Understanding is power.