2017-02-04

World Cancer Day

World Cancer Day 2017    
I once heard a lecture on DNA and RNA whereby the physician speaking made the generalization that everyone will eventually get cancer — if they live long enough.

His point being the accumulated damage which occurs secondary to free radicals, toxins, injury, and so forth will eventually cause those mechanisms of genetic and somatic repair to fail resulting in those tumors of faulty replication.

Now then, being the rank student amateur I was at that tender young stage of my career, I immediately hit medline on what was the fledgling internet of the late 70s and read up finding SOD complex, superoxide dismutase to be that enzymatic solution to longer healthy cellular division.

Toward that end, I located a vendor supplying sublingual SOD complex and started taking it continuing for several years until I returned to South Carolina and resumed my Kentucky Fried Chicken addiction.

Nowadays I take glisodin complex which is a form of SOD bound to a carrier which can survive the digestive system.

Today is World Cancer Day.

Cancer is a disease which results from uncontrolled division of abnormal cells in some body part.

These neoplasms are actually newly formed areas of abnormal tissue growth and are highly characteristic of the disease.

World Cancer Day is important because it brings to the fore that importance which is attempt at both it's control and eradication. Some of the saddest anecdotes I ever heard were pediatric onocologists relating the course of some patient's disease ... and worse; reading various death summaries during my career.

Cancer is a horrible way to die and although life has taught me that other diseases can be just as bad or even worse — the diminished "lifestyle" nature of many cancers brings it to my mind as a tragedy with which we should help it's victims to cope and better yet ... go into remission permanently.