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What do we know about cancer?

It kills you.  If you get cancer, there is a good chance that you will die.  This chance grows exponentially with the number of malignant, life-robbing cells thriving in your warm, tasty flesh.  Worse, the very cause of cancer, DNA mutation, has the potential of occurring during cellular division, or mitosis.  This is compounded drastically by the fact that there are between 10 and 100 trillion(estimates vary) cells in the human body, most of which are constantly engaged in the process of growing and dividing to keep you, in theory, healthy.  Exposing the human body to unhealthy levels of high frequency electromagnet radiation is one of of a limited list of treatments.  The other is hacking away at the flesh to remove tumorous growths, all the while hoping they haven't sent their devious, vile, and most importantly, prolific seed out through the lymphatic or circulatory systems.  In short, cancer is much like "gangsta" rap:  It makes any rational, healthy-minded person want to tear out their eyeballs to facilitate digging through their cerebral cortex to reach the core of the autonomic nervous system and rip it clean from their skulls.

What do we know causes cancer?

Cigarettes, and actually tobacco in general come to mind.  Nuclear weapons and radioactive waste are also popular.  Many of us are familiar with a poor diet being a possible factor in various cancers of the digestive system.  Asbestos removal is still a thriving business in the United States and other industrial nations.  All sorts of defoliants, pesticides, and herbicides are also quite lethal in the sense that they can cause cancer, as well as all sorts of other delightfully painful, and quite terminal, diseases.  Radon gas, benzene, silica, broiled and barbecued meat, fried foods, arsenic, cereal, the scent of fresh asphalt, bread, and wood dust are also likely members of the ever growing list of carcinogens.  Did I forget to mention welding fumes and the industrial flavoring agent used on bags of microwave popcorn?

What can we conclude?

As mitosis in a chemically complex environment, the human body for instance, provides a nearly ideal environment for mutation, it is safe to say that being alive causes cancer.  If all other causes of fatality were to be removed, either through medical science, selective breeding, or by a holy miracle, we would all eventually have a rogue cell create mutant offspring.  Though many mutations would in fact be benign or completely not viable, sooner or later a strain of malignant cells would begin to grow.  This strain may spread, or possibly even be paralleled by other cancerous growths forming independently elsewhere, but in the end it would not matter.  Tumors and other nasty growths, chemical imbalances, or the physical destruction of vital organs would cause the body to cease functioning.  Electroencephalographic functions would be terminated.  This is colloquially referred to most often as death.

The cure!

What then, is the medical response, using today's technology and anatomical knowledge, that can save us from this ugly, slow, and quite often painful end?  The first option is less of a chemical and more of a mental or psychological treatment.  By sheer will, cease the division of cells in your body.  Having done this, you will have all but eliminated the potential for mutation to occur, and having occurred, grow and spread.  There is hope that an advanced variation of this technique will allow human beings, through rigorous training, to use their mental fortitude to stabilize DNA, preventing mutation while still enabling mitosis to occur.  The second option, more readily acceptable in a pharmaceutical-dependent society such as mainstream America, the European Union, the British Commonwealth nations, and Asian powers such as Russia, Japan, and China, is available in pill form.  A 100-200 milligram dosage of KCN or NaCN will, generally within two to three hours have been rendered immune to the growth of cancerous cells.  A similar chemical, HCN, is readily administrable via inhalation through a respirator or booth.  One boon to this method is that in clinical and independent trials since the 1940's, at least a thousand well documented successful treatment have been recorded, with relatively few, if any, failures.  It is a wonder that, in a society seeking quick solutions to an ever growing number of problems, this has been overlooked by medical science almost entirely.

Michael Tashner
April 13, 2007