Cancer Treatment Options Forum - May 9th, 2011 - 1 Comment
Does DNA reproduce itself & its defects? DNA missing link caused cancer, will chemo and radiation fix this?
I’m lost, not even sure how to phrase the question because all of this has been such a shock to our family. My child had ewing sarcoma (pnet) in her right kidney, which was removed. We are at the end of her treatment plan involving chemo and radiation. Everything looks great, all the doctors are so amazed at how she has healed and tolerated the treatment with little or no complaints/sickness. But I’m wondering, if this cancer was caused by a problem in her DNA, as everything indicates that it was…..then will this "missing link" continue to be reproduced by her DNA…or was the idea behind the chemo and radiation was to elminate the problem/fix it?
In other words…..what prevents her DNA from continuing to reproduce at it’s original defective state?
Chemo and Radiation just kill a higher proportion of defective cells than normal cells. When all of the defective cells are gone, they can no longer reproduce any more cells with that defect.
Any hereditary tendency for cells to reproduce in a mutated form is in every cell of the body and does not mean that the DNA is wrong or unhealthy; its just part of the spectrum of normal human differences.
Using a kind of gene therapy to effectively "immunize" against a hereditary tendency for defective cells is not a likely development in medical science.
Choose not to live in fear. Normal cell division is an incredibly stable process.