DJ_DHANA
Here I'm gonna share something that I don't want you to share with everyone. In this month of Breast Cancer awareness, let me give you some insights on cancer relapse which is more prevalent in breast cancers. So why does cancer come back?
We might have heard of stories of the patients who had cancer relapse even after 10 years. There are instances when patients are told that they are cured of cancer and sent back home but later again diagnosed with cancer. So where does cancer go in these 10 years and how they manage to come back. So here is the possible reason or can I say a predictive hypothesis (under investigation)? When a cancer patient is being treated with a therapy (like targeted, chemo, radio, etc.,), the cancer cells that are metabolically active (vulnerable) takes up the drug and dies but few might still survive. How? They go into a metabolically inactive dormant (Sleep) state where they could take no more drugs, masking all the targets and might survive. They remain in this dormant state for a long period until all the therapies are resumed and when the conditions are quite favorable, it relapse back. So when it relapse, they behave more aggressively than they were ever before. Why? Think of someone who remained dormant for 10 years, the amount of energy it would've saved. That's why cancer is very difficult to treat after relapse. So the most important thing is, I don't want you to share this info with the cancer patients and scare them away as it's just a hypothesis with a lot of speculations and it's not yet accepted by the entire research community. But you can share this info with the research aspirants who wanna solve the critical healthcare problems. Having worked with cancer and stem cells, I fear that this hypothesis might be true in the long run.
Here I'm gonna share something that I don't want you to share with everyone. In this month of Breast Cancer awareness, let me give you some insights on cancer relapse which is more prevalent in breast cancers. So why does cancer come back?
We might have heard of stories of the patients who had cancer relapse even after 10 years. There are instances when patients are told that they are cured of cancer and sent back home but later again diagnosed with cancer. So where does cancer go in these 10 years and how they manage to come back. So here is the possible reason or can I say a predictive hypothesis (under investigation)? When a cancer patient is being treated with a therapy (like targeted, chemo, radio, etc.,), the cancer cells that are metabolically active (vulnerable) takes up the drug and dies but few might still survive. How? They go into a metabolically inactive dormant (Sleep) state where they could take no more drugs, masking all the targets and might survive. They remain in this dormant state for a long period until all the therapies are resumed and when the conditions are quite favorable, it relapse back. So when it relapse, they behave more aggressively than they were ever before. Why? Think of someone who remained dormant for 10 years, the amount of energy it would've saved. That's why cancer is very difficult to treat after relapse. So the most important thing is, I don't want you to share this info with the cancer patients and scare them away as it's just a hypothesis with a lot of speculations and it's not yet accepted by the entire research community. But you can share this info with the research aspirants who wanna solve the critical healthcare problems. Having worked with cancer and stem cells, I fear that this hypothesis might be true in the long run.
