Posted by IsoM on March 26, 2002, at 16:13:23
In reply to I'm in a PANIC: article on cancer and SSRI's:, posted by Janelle on March 26, 2002, at 15:21:43
Janelle, no need to worry. This is what's meant when it's said that a little knowledge can be dangerous. Not that you're dangerous, but your understanding of it isn't complete.
There's amny different reasons & ways that cells become cancerous, & different ways the body destroys these canerous cells. In perfectly healthy individuals, as cells divide, some will not have their genetic code copied correctly. Any of these cells can be potentially cancerous. This is an ongoing process in our bodies throughout our lives & few of us do develop cancer. If we do, it's generally in the elderly after many, many replications of cells & DNA being copied over & over. There's many, many steps in the path of a cell turning cancerous. And many safe-guards along the way preventing this from happening. If one safe-guard doesn't catch it, it doesn't mean others won't.
Did you know that there's something in one of the many rhinoviruses (common colds) that stops cancer dead in its track? If you take that idea further, you might come to the conclusion that anyone getting a cold would be cured of their cancer. It doesn't work that way. It's so much more involved & complicated than that.
Same with this article you found on serotonin, SSRIs, & cancer. What goes on in a test-tube is so simplistic compared to what goes on in our bodies. Heck, even leading medical & biochemical researchers have a LONG way in understanding the body's processes.
And just think of all the conflicting stories you've read on coffee is bad for us, coffee is good. Chocolate is bad, now chocolate is good as powerful anti-oxidants have been found in it. Mankind has learned a great deal in the last hundred years & it's accelerated more so in just the last twenty years. Yet, what we now know is just a cup of water melted from an ice-berg of knowledge. Most of it's submerged & we don't even how much we don't know.
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