Some Hidden Truths about Cancer

Abstract

Cancer is a deadly disease because we do not fully understand its mechanism and, like many other deadly diseases before, do not know how to manage it correctly. Inasmuch as this is a blank statement that we all know, it is also a statement acknowledging our desire to know and to conquer this disease, like we did for many other diseases that wiped millions off this planet before. We conquered these deadly diseases because we understood them to a point that we could develop highly effective therapies to control them. For cancer, this proved to be a much harder task than before. We have spent much more resources on cancer than any other diseases we have faced, yet we have hardly changed the deadly nature of it. We thought we have known this disease much better than other diseases but that understanding seems to rest at the level of cancer as a uniform disease, we still seem to be clueless when facing a real-world individual case. Here I would like to discuss cancer as a disease, especially as a deadly disease from few different angles than before. Most my views stem form curiosities accumulated over a dozen years of clinical observations and management of cancer. Many of these curiosities, after persistent pursue, have returned with fruitful answers. This assay present some of these answers with extension to possible truth about cancer as an individual disease.