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what strain I get.

cancer isnt a virus or a bacteria, the type of cancer someone may get depends on the type of cells involved. its a mutation. with so many cells dividing in your body and the complexities involved if everything isnt controlled something eventually is bound to go wrong whether hormonal, environmental or otherwise. its only takes one erroneous cell to mutate and that cell quickly becomes two, then four, then 8 etc. Hence why its so dangerous, the body doesnt recognise it as foreign so it doesnt attack it and it cant identify which cells are damaged, the cells dont simply have a shutoff to be reabsorbed into the body and they exponentially grow out of control and can effect like or similar cells as the body needs to replace aging ones.

There are numerous different avenues scientists are taking to find and kill the damaged cells but finding them safely is proving very difficult, the best course of action for a while now seems to be to bombard the area with so much radiation it effectively destroys all cells in that area. problem is if its spreads too far, chemotherapy isnt an option given what the treatment is. chemotherapy in that instance harms what little healthy cells you have left

Im optimistic about a safe effective treatment in our future, with the knowledge of understanding our genes (of which there have been remarkable progress made), nanotech etc. hopefully cancer when it occurs will be nothing more than just a quick unremarkable treatment than none of us really have to worry about anymore

I cant really find any good informative articles right now but here's an abstract:

http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=32467

British researchers have gained a great deal of attention by using a technique called nanotechnology to fight cancer. We've talked about nanotechnology before. Here is what the researchers did: they packaged anti-cancer genes in very small particles that are only taken up by cancer cells, leaving healthy cells unharmed. Bee venom:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0802101817.htm

On a personal note i lost a grandparent too it, it turned an enormous (literally, he loved his food, didnt drink or smoke though) energetic man into a mere shadow of his former self before he passed, he was easily three, four times the weight of my father in his health, before it took him he weighted less than him.

I absolutely love hearing about when people beat it. Never gets old, no matter who or where they are