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Originally Posted by tucker6
I know from first hand experience that you can do only what aggressive cancers want you to do and not the other way around. They are extremely tough to beat. I was told by an oncologist that for every cubic centimeter of tumor in your body, you can multiply that by 100M cancer cells and that is how many cancer cells are in tumors. She then added that the same amount as was in tumors was also floating freely in your body ready to take root somewhere else. So McCain may have a few hundred million aggressive-type cancer cells running through his body. Only chemo and like treatments can rid the body of those floaters. Cancer is insidious for this reason. It is hard to fight something that large because even if chemo kills 99%, that 1% will find you eventually.
Exceptions occur of course which is why we fight, but aggressive versions of cancer are very difficult because they resist chemo to a larger degree and want to take root faster.
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I appreciate you sharing this information with me and I have no reason to doubt any of it. You seem to be well-informed on the subject. The real reason I posted was to give some props to McCain. He likely will need a miracle.
