Chapter 6: Exploration
Book 1: Beyond the Big Crunch – A text (book) for bioecology
An Autobiography of a Cancer Cell
Please note: material within the flower bracket in blue/red colour is the commentary
Chapter VI. Exploration (to conquer – know thy enemy first)
{To conquer cancer we should know its behaviour exactly. Way back in time, the entire malaria control program in India, was based on the observation that a mosquito sits on a wall after feeding on human blood. The other behaviour of the insect is to seek for a stagnant puddle of water nearby to breed.}
When we came across a flowing river I was surprised, being the first exposure to such an existence. It contained a whitish fluid flowing in one direction. {This is the lymphatic channel. After detaching from the main body of cancer, the cell infiltrates around and encounters the lymphatic channel through which it travels to the lymph nodes}. I took it as an opportunity to explore the same instead of skirting around it. I also thought that our travel would be easier in the flow of the river.