i had this thought years ago and it goes like this: you know like the feature in microsoft word where you select a word thats, for sake of argument, written in size 8 arial font and click on the relevant button (paintbrush maybe?) and then select the target word (in this example, say written in sans serif size 12 font) and the sans serif 12 font turns into arial size 8 font? well, i thought if we could somehow select healthy cells (size 8 arial font) and then tell our brain/body to change the cancer cells (size 12 sans serif) into healthy cells (size 8 arial font) it would solve cancer....
Interesting. First you'd have to know that cancer cells are there though. Sometimes they're not discovered until they're all over the place. Might not be so straight forward.
Cancer cells don't change back. They have gone "crazy" and refuse to die from the normal programed cell death called apoptosis. Cancer cells are greedy, they cause new blood vessels to be made to feed them more so they can grow faster. But in some cancers, exposure to cannabinoids can tell the cell to die- Cannabidiol induces programmed cell death in breast cancer cells by coordinating the crosstalk between apoptosis and autophagy. (abst – 2011) Cannabidiol induces programmed cell death in... [Mol Cancer Ther. 2011] - PubMed - NCBI Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol induces apoptosis in human prostate PC-3 cells via a receptor-independent mechanism. (abst -1999) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10570948 In some cancers, exposure to cannabinoids can stop the growth of new blood vessels (angiogenesis an gee oh gen ah sis). Inhibition of tumor angiogenesis by cannabinoids (full - 2003) Inhibition of tumor angiogenesis by cannabinoids Inhibition of skin tumor growth and angiogenesis in vivo by activation of cannabinoid receptors (full - 2003) JCI - Inhibition of skin tumor growth and angiogenesis in vivo by activation of cannabinoid receptors Granny
there is a cure to cancer, but big medical companies are not investing in it because it doesn't require a patent, so they cannot make money off of it. Its some fucked up shit. snopes.com: Scientists Cure Cancer, But No One Takes Notice
[quote name='"momaphan95"']there is a cure to cancer, but big medical companies are not investing in it because it doesn't require a patent, so they cannot make money off of it. Its some fucked up shit. snopes.com: Scientists Cure Cancer, But No One Takes Notice[/quote] Wow really?!
I don't think it would work because cancer cells are already so fucked up and genetically crazy, they wouldn't respond to the built in genetic control mechanisms, because its my best guess that there is already genetic information telling cells when to stop growing, so why would the cancer cells listen to one set of rules and not the other? Uhh but other than that the idea is fucking genius I normally think of everything but that's so genius that I never though of it. I wanna look into this one but I'm too high right now. So sorry if that didn't make sense. Oh and maybe the cancer cells would create so many new cancer cells that it wouldn't matter what size they were, the rate of exponential growth would create a tumor in only a short time. I'll check back on this in about 3 hours.
Well, the best that you can hope for really is targeting the cells and killing them, not changing them, and yes research in this direction using things like modified viruses that would only attack cancerous cells has been underway for many years, if my memory serves....
On the topic of curing cancer, you should research amygdalin (a.k.a. vitamin b17 or laetrille). There's a great book called alive and well by Dr. Binzel I believe or a world without cancer by G. Edward Griffin. The latter is the main reason I started hating the FDA