The War on Cancer refers to the effort to find a cure for cancer by increased research to improve the understanding of cancer biology and the development of more effective cancer treatments, such as targeted drug therapies.. The signing of the National Cancer Act of 1971 by United States president Richard Nixon is generally viewed as the beginning of this effort, though it was not described as a "war" in the legislation itself.
War stated as “a state of usually open and declared armed hostile conflict between states or nations” in Merriam-Webster dictionary. War indicated attack of foreign army.
On the other hand meaning of rebel is opposing or taking arms against a government or ruler. Something has to cause rebellion. There are complaints. These complaints have usually been ignored over so long a period of time that people have become impatient with the slow pace of change; they begin to feel that conditions are unbearable. These complaints are most important causes of rebellion.
I think that cancer cells are rebels (cells live in bad conditions) and they try to live .
We must change our philosophy. We must accept cancer cells as rebels not enemy and we must try to correct bad environment to calm rebels.
in my opinion cancer cells try to escape from war, but escaping they cause bigger and bigger war
War against cancers will continue just as long as the war against human poverty will never end. I think war against cancers is part of nature motivation for humans to increase their knowledge about themselves as a vast collection of tiny biosystems.
and also to understand how beautiful and precisely designed and programmed is our body
The war on cancer is misguided philosophically and so are the weapons used to combat the disease radiation and toxic chemicals. As Andrzej stated so eloquently we need to neutralize the rebellion by harnessing the body's natural defenses and then make peace not war.
Neither. This is just a "mal-understanding" of the actual physiologic situation. See e.g. some papers by Dvorak on "cancer as a wound that does not heal":
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198612253152606
DOi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-14-0209
See also "The Inhibition of tumor growth by tumor mass" by Prehn (Cancer Res 1991, 51:2-4, according to which the tumor growth is a "glitch" in appropriate estimation of the final size of a tumor considered as an organ rather than a group of cells. And an interesting concept by Walker, maybe not given explicitly, of the actual disregulation of the balance between differentiation and ageing: DOI: 10.1089/rej.2011.1162
Differentiation and ageing. Both are programmed in the genome. Just read the papers by Walker.
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