Cancer
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We're now learning to identify the
cancer
stem cells and identify those as targets and go for the long-term cure.
But often it's too late, and it's stage III or IV cancer, for example.
And as a
cancer
doctor, I'm looking forward to being out of a job.
Not when you get lung
cancer.
And I should mention that I have pancreatic cancer, and I'd like you to please be quick about this."
So at that point we knew that it was
cancer.
We knew it wasn't lung
cancer.
A cancer, a tumor, is something you grow out of your own tissue.
Well, so what I read on WebMD: "The prognosis is poor for progressing renal cell
cancer.
And this is the diagram of stage 4 kidney
cancer
from the drug I eventually got.
I had kidney
cancer
growing out of my tongue.
Well, my doctor prescribed a patient community, ACOR.org, a network of
cancer
patients, of all amazing things.
Very quickly they told me, "Kidney
cancer
is an uncommon disease.
This is Regina Holliday, a painter in Washington DC, whose husband died of kidney
cancer
a year after my disease.
Well, she found, through her online research, a nuclear bone scan that's usually used for cancer, but it can also reveal inflammation.
And the radiologist's report said, "No
cancer
found."
She worked at the Banting Institute in Toronto, and at 44 she died of stomach
cancer.
And I stumbled across something called
"cancer
stem cells."
At first when I heard of
cancer
stem cells, I didn't really know how to put the two together.
But I'd heard of
cancer
as the most feared disease of our time, so how did the good and bad go together?
Last summer I worked at Stanford University, doing some research on
cancer
stem cells.
The more I read, the more I looked at
cancer
differently and almost became less fearful of it.
It seems that
cancer
is a direct result to injury.
If you smoke, you damage your lung tissue, and then lung
cancer
arises.
If you drink, you damage your liver, and then liver
cancer
occurs.
So, if the body is sensing that you have damage to an organ and then it's initiating cancer, it's almost as if this is a repair response.
And the cancer, the body is saying the lung tissue is damaged, we need to repair the lung.
If we eliminate
cancer
the way we're trying to do now, with chemotherapy and radiation, we're bombarding the body or the
cancer
with toxins, or with radiation, trying to kill it.
We're removing the
cancer
cells, but we're revealing the previous damage that the body has tried to fix.
We'd end up better than we were before
cancer.
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