Re: re: panc. cancer to Terry

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Terry,

My specialty in school was Microbiology not Human Cell Biology (how the

heck did I ever get to spend nearly 30 years selling computers?). What we

looked at in Micro was that mutations usually occurred in the

repair/reproduction of damaged or weak/weakened organisms. The stronger

and undamaged cells usually reproduced faithfully. I would imagine that

human cells are not much different that bacterium. My best guess is that

the damaged pancreatic cells are much more likely to reproduce into cancer

cells than undamaged healthy cells.

It's been way too long of a time since I looked into a microscope but to

the best of my recollection that's the way it works.

Chuck

At 12:22 PM 8/28/2002 -0400, you wrote:

>Chuck,

>

>Extremely simple, thank you very, very much. My only question would be: if

>the cells are being replaced constantly, as they are throughout the rest of

>the body, why on earth would there be any greater chance of these cells being

>cancerous than those cells being replaced throughout the rest of the body??

>

>Thank you,

>Terry

Chuck Sullivan

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