I found this an intriguing perspective on cancer. There are many interesting concepts explored in this video.
(1) Systemic thinking about cancer | Miscellaneous | Heatlh & Medicine | Khan Academy - YouTube
I found this an intriguing perspective on cancer. There are many interesting concepts explored in this video.
(1) Systemic thinking about cancer | Miscellaneous | Heatlh & Medicine | Khan Academy - YouTube
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Hello Blogger,
Many years ago I came to think of cancerous cell-replication (the production of a daughter-cells) as most likely being an unmasked relict of a last ditch reproductive survival promoting successful response by a single celled (amoebic) ancestor of multi-cellular animals; a once or more than once successful survival-strategy consisting of the prodcuction of a mutant daughter cell that did not inherit the mother-cells maladaptive response to (or the daughter cell may even have been able to eat) what may well have been ambient irritating molecular constituents of an 'irritating cloud" caused by a volcanic eruption in the primordial sea.
I suggest that the above scenario can be interpreted as a stylized or simplified primordial quasi-prototype of how, uniquely in case of the phylogeny of the fauna capable of calling themselves "folk", "Opportunity ⋂ SHI-type threats come CURSES ⇒ EAVASIVE.
So now, when some a (for a multicellular animal's development and overall functional integrity required) cell-replication regulating/suppressing mechanism is rendered ineffective by some environmental source that may or may not also be the cause of persistent tissue-irritation, then cancerous cell-replication can occur. Oncogenes are merely multicellular animals' means of regulating/suppressing the basic self-replicating tendency of their constituent cells.
P.S.
"EAVASIVE" and "CURSES" and "SHI-type threats" are some of the MAD-inspired insight facilitating lingual lenses/conceptual tools that are components of my ÆPT take ("ÆPT" being a flexibly raised and diversely derivable spelling space-saving facetiously acronymic flag for e.g.: "an extended primal theory" or for "atheistically enlightened perspective textualised") on mainly but not only what is going on in the sphere of human affairs.
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