Cancer Explained
Our cells die and reproduce themselves at quite an alarming rate.
More than 50 billion cells die in an adult body every day.
This process is called apoptosis and is a natural phenomenon as our cells age quickly and use up their functionality. All those cells, however, are being replaced.
Every cell contains the blueprint of the body and the code for that specific cell. Each cell uses this information to reproduce itself, allowing the duplicate to take its place once the original cell is obsolete.
The duplicate is now the functioning cell that contains the DNA code and will eventually reproduce itself again before it “dies”.
Cancer is the production of malignant, or fast-growing, tumors.
A tumor is a growth that is comprised of a type of cell that exists in the body in an area where that type of cell should not exist.
When we talk about fast-growing tumors (malignant) it is important to point out that they are growing because of a cell, or groups of cells, that are abnormally duplicating themselves using their DNA preemptively before the time of their death is upon them.
Rapid duplication occurs in the mass growing and what causes death is the group of one type of cells as they crowd out other important cells such as organs, brain, lung, and heart tissues.
The tumor that develops often creates too much pressure that destroys the other surrounding cells thus eventually destroying a vital organ which then leads to death.
The discovery that cancer is the rapid duplication of regular living tissue was paramount because of the following.
If cancer is defined as the overproduction of regular cells in the body then logic states that if we can stop the replication process, the dramatic reproduction of cells would revert to a normal state.
The accumulated mass (tumor) made up of regular body cells would eventually die off like all other cells in the body and be dissolved into the bloodstream.
Therefore if the rapid duplication can be reset or reverted to the cell’s regular cycle then the tumor would vanish within a short amount of time and the body would continue as normal.
