The REAL Cure for Cancer

Video is nicely edited.. but feels like a bit of a speed run of the subject tbh. I appreciate the effort to shed light on the subject but I don't really feel satisfied with any of the explanations of what Cancer is in this video. Maybe I am being pedantic, but saying its a bunch of different diseases sort of confuses the underlying truth. It is technically true, but pretty confusing if you don't already know what causes cancer and what characterizes it in a biological system. 

Cancer comes from mutations that dysregulate cellular behavior/activity. Cells are complex systems, each of which possess the innate capacity to do the activities of all other cells in your body. Cells that create bone, neurons, blood cells, immune cells, etc. ALL contain the same genetic code, but are doing radically different things in the body. There is a sort of carefully orchestrated and beautiful harmony guiding the many individual cells, the many distinctly individual systems (cells) as a larger meta-system. Cancer is a broad category of disruption to the biological system that IS a human. Cells with enough of the right sorts of genetic mutations begin to behave in ways which not only look like, but also act like separate organisms. Kind of like if a state defected from the USA; they're still embedded in the same larger system, but now they see them selves as distinct, and are not interested in obeying the laws which allow for harmonious coexistence. Cancer is a kind of dis-integration. That which was happily bound up together as one unified whole has now split. 

I think presenting cancer in a different light sort of belittles the importance and real incredible nature of the disease. I don't want to say the video is bad or anything, but I just thought I would share my perspective on the subject as doing a little work in the field in my past left me with a real appreciation for the complexity of the disease and the deeply involved process of learning to fight against and overcome it.