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          Website to analyze why our advanced society has failed to discover the cause and/or to find a prevention for the diseases called cancer.  The analysis will require a review of what is known about cancer, its politics, its industry, and the movers and shakers behind it.  Of course, that is a never ending task, but that does not prevent the effort. 
           One big question is cancer a natural result of inbred errors in the biological acitivies that support reproduction and life or is it something more basic, errors in forces or in the variables which affect the forces that constitute the mysteries of life?
                Upfront, we want to recognize the work of the Snp race 1 and 2 3 because SNPs represent the most common form of variation in the genes of man.  Thus, each persons SNPs could determine (predict) for him/her alone, things like his/her response to drug therapy, habituation, risk to contract a disease, and even whether or not that person will likely survive it.  This work suggests that an examination of ones genes may replace the traditional physical exam and the physician; because it can tell more about the health of a person than the physician can see.   Genomics in TB?
        For the most part, cancer seems to be a cellular disease.. which means one needs to understand the bureaucratic (license and education) impact, the legislative impact (funding and patent), as well as the microchemistry, physiology, embryology, genetics, anatomy, and the inter/intracellular languages used by the cells to communicate.  Years ago the genetic code was unraveled, and still serves as good example of the communicating capabilities of cells.   Cells have many different internal organs which are connected and interlinked so that they can communicate with each other as conditions change.. The reproductive machinery of the cell ( that is, when one cell copies itself or when two cells make a third) presents as a standard biologically controlled construction protocol administered in a logical sequence.  In other words, once a cell begins reproduction, it becomes committed to completing it.. through a cycle of events that has come to be known as the cell cycle.
        One interesting challenge is to discover the mechanistic logic cells use to not only determine its own position within the human body, but also to end up in that position.  Remember, there are many, many different types of cells.  Embryologically speaking, we can study the mechanisms of construction, but I cannot find that we know much about the addressing system that the various cells use to position themselves.  Much like the third grade class of Miss Jane, the individuals line up in their assigned places.  But unlike a line up, if one or more of the individuals is removed, an exact duplicate quickly appears, and moves to the proper place in the body,  to replace the missing cell. How does this happen?   What system of detection is used by the body to determine when a particular cell needs to be replaced, what logic is used by a cell to design its replacement and after the design is completed, what logic arranges to direct the reproductive machinery to make the correct replacement for the missing cell.  Is it true then, that cancer is an error in one or more of these systems, or is it something else, even an error in the execution of a basic design?
       Worldwide, 8 Million die each year of cancer, 1.3 million ( 16%)  are victims of Lung cancers.  Prevention, of cancer is a nice goal, but if you don't know what causes it, how can it be prevented?   The statistics show smoking  are related to 17.7% of all deaths in developed countries and 10.9% of all deaths in developing countries (smoke) (smoking lungs), so what is the politics that makes it impossible for you to avoid smoke in public places.
       Further, each new discovery, vests in its discoverer, a patent to the discovery, and so discovery transitions unknown facts to investigation impediments and often denies patients the benefits of discovery.   Thus, medicine, which is itself not a science, suffers for lack of new products from science, while the patent holder gets rich. 
       We need prevention for all types of cancers; but, until we discover what cancer is, and until we realize that the medical professional may not be the right person to treat cancer, we will probably have to settle for treatments that only sometimes work.   The only medical treatment that I have seen that works is surgery.  Surgery requires that the cancer be in an operable place, that a competent surgeon be available, and that the presence of the cancer be detected before it affects or spreads to more than one spot or place in the body.
       Cancer, aids, and some other diseases have pointed the need for a treatment professional trained more as a scientist, than as a clinical physician.  It may be a long time before people are willing to trust the scientist with their disease, but the disease of cancer requires the services of scientists, not physicians.  In fact, the two types of professionals almost exclude each other because they approach their jobs so differently. 
        Cancer does not have a known cause or an accepted treatment that works like most other diseases for which the physician is so well trained.  Each case of cancer becomes a scientific project because not only the cancer but also the patient must be accurately characterized and a treatment regimen has to be designed that is based on the cellular and genetic characteristics of the cells that are cancerous.   This is the job of the genetic engineers and the cellular biologists, the analytical and physical chemist, not the traditional physician or hospital laboratory.  Maybe primary care for cancer, except surgery, should not be physician provided, at least not until the disease is better understood.  Instead, cancer patients might want to employ molecular scientists and specialist who can manipulate data in the computer, to oversee the work of the traditional clinician: MD, RN, etc.  But wouldn't this require a law change?  Trained scientist are not a part of "organized medicine", but without them, there would be no progress in medicine. 
     Patients need  Cancer prevention.   They need it administered without the preventive effect of patents and without admission and educational barriers which serve to prevent people form obtaining a license to practice or even such basics as "ACCESS" to Information".  Such barriers are administered by bureaucrats, responding to members of congress, responding to lobbyist, responding to the gain power by controlling access strategies, practiced by members of the  industry, called service providers to medicine!   Treatments, no matter how profitable or high tech, might make patent owners, stockholders, and product providers rich, but cause considerable patient anguish and make the end of one's life uncomfortable! 
       People often mistake medicine for science and medicine would like for people to believe they are one in the same.   The end product of science is useable technology and medicine is a major user of scientific end products. Still, physicians are not trained scientists, they are clinicians, and it is my opinion, medicine people should not be engaged in scientific research.
       It is difficult to understand why government opts not to inoculate you from the deadly Hepatitis B?   Cancer, is a cellular disease, under genetic influence, and it needs to be prevented, not just treated.  Ask any cancer patient, and they will say treatments are a poor substitute for prevention. Speaking of prevention have you considered the problem of teeth?  Ask any scientist and they will say prevention is not generally possible without an understanding of the disease, without the measurement tools to accurately predict the on coming presence of a cancer and its site, and without a complete in data, international in scope, freely accessible, public electronic database, relating genetic and family personal disease and disability histories for all living and deceased persons, a goal which will require the complete asymptomatic screening of all persons in the world.  This goal is achievable if the physician is required by law to gather the data on his patients and to submit the gathered data in complete and proper form to the public gene vs. health database (GvHdb).   The forces of government are against the patient, because the industry of medicine cannot make as much money from prevention as from treatment.
    But now lets look at some other possible causes of cancer.    One might be the electronic field strengths of the meridian theories so often used by acupuncturist another might require that we better understand that a chemical reaction is not a nuclear reaction, and that a nuclear reaction is not a chemical reaction.  The two operate independantly of one another.  The impact of nuclear activities on cell and cellular structures has not been systematically reported into the literature of cell or molecular science.  Without data, lots and lots of it, we will not find answers.  The most certain way to hide the answers is to classify the data as "top secret" or "secret"