WHAT IS CANCER?

For most of my life I thought of cancer as a dangerous malfunction of the cells. More and more science is starting to doubt that. Cancer it seems is not just the cells that malfunction, but, the entire area around it. Then there are studies that say that metastasis starts early in the cancer process.... cells are sent out to other areas in the body and lie dormant. They only activate once they get a signal from the original site.  

Then there are the experiments on the ECM. The extracellular matrix (sometimes referred to as the microbiome) This is the "gel" area around each cell that basically holds it in place. Or tells it what kind of cell it is supposed to be. Scientists have shown that when this breaks down, the cells start to slip outside it and travel. They also lose their differentiation (so they forget what kind of cell they are supposed to be and de-evolve to single celled proliferating organisms). But then, when the ECM is fixed.. everything goes back to normal. 

So cancer it seems is a survival mechanism. Something goes wrong in the original area... causing the area to determine that it is too toxic to survive without moving.

They have already shown that proliferation (the warburg effect) is something that happens with normal cells, immune system cells, typically involving some threat. It would make sense that is the case here. 

Then I heard it, Dr. Michael Eades was talking and he said that originally humans had their beta cells inside the small intestine.. but it was too toxic and the cells moved outside the small intestine and moved to where the pancreas is (and formed the pancreas) and that just hit me like a ton of bricks.  

Cancer has to be a survival mechanism when the original site becomes too toxic. If we never treated cancer sure millions would die while the cells were trying to figure out how to move, but eventually the cells would move to an area they could survive at. That is what metastasis is.... it is a way to find out and move to the optimal area in the body.  It seems like that is why the cells are sent out early and lie dormant. The original area is trying to fix the problem / do what it can to adapt. But when the cells become aware they are not going to, they send the message to the "survivors" to take their last stab at it, they only problem, it usually kills the patient.  But if we let this process go on, might someday, someone survive?  With cells moved to an area that would be ok? Is this why sometimes people with very dire prognosis's end up ok?

Of course, we can't just let people die but it seems to me that the focus has to be in finding out why are bodies are having toxic spots.. and avoiding that.