Posted on 04/02/2018 1:31:16 PM PDT by blueplum
A newly discovered network of fluid-filled channels in the human body may be a previously-unknown organ, and it seems to help transport cancer cells around the body.
This discovery was made by chance, from routine endoscopies – a procedure that involves inserting a thin camera into a person’s gastrointestinal tract. Newer approaches enable doctors to use this procedure to get a microscopic look at the tissue inside a person’s gut at the same time, with some surprising results. {snip}
This organ was likely never seen before because standard approaches for processing and visualising human tissue causes the channels to drain, and the collagen fibres that give the network its structure to collapse in on themselves. This would have made the channels appear like a hard wall of dense protective tissue, instead of a fluid-filled cushion.
But as well as protecting organs, the network may also aid the spread of cancer. When Theise’s team looked at samples taken from people with invasive cancers, they found evidence that cancer cells that had worked their way out of their original tissues could find their way into these channels, which took them directly to the lymphatic system. “Once they get in, it’s like they’re on a water slide,” says Theise. “We have a new window on the mechanism of tumour spread.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
now, if we can figure out how to get a skin bacteria (see FR link below) compound to work within the newly-discovered organ system, we might have a eureka moment on Cancer.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3636987/posts
h/t nickcarraway
clickable link to nickcarraway’s skin thread:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3636987/posts
(one day I’ll figure out why links in the first comment never post live)
Precious Body Fluids
(one day I’ll figure out why links in the first comment never post live)
:-)
Because you didn’t do a preview first
Organs! Funniest things ever. We discover new ones every day! And they show up in different places in every body!
It’s located between venis and Uranus?
Oh wait, wrong punch line.
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>> “A newly discovered network of fluid-filled channels” <<
Newly discovered by the AMA Quacks perhaps, but natural health practitioners have bveen aware of it for centuries.
Ugh!
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And oh, duh, no wonder they never saw it, you can only see it when the person’s alive! If they only had a clew! Next think they’re going to start saying the brain can heal itself!
What does this have to do with sails?
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Soon those quacks will discover the pianos too!
Then we’ll have a new generation of TV commercials from big Pharma promising to tume our pianos.
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Sssh!
Its all secret!
And this is not the lymphatic system?
Fascinating!
anger repression doesn’t explain child and infant cancers
The human body is without a doubt, the most researched, and dissected, organism in the history of biology, with perhaps billions of dissections and billions of studies...
and, NOW we’re being told that the human body has an organ which escaped notice?
Hard to believe.
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Is there any part of the body that doesn’t heal itself if provided proper nutrition?
You can’t make this stuff up... Wait! The AMA gang does make it up. Oh well!
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new hypothesis about acupuncture: since the needle has to pass the skin barrier, meaning it becomes ‘contaminated’ upon contact with the skin, perhaps it introduces the skin bacteria compounds into the (whatever they decide to call this new fluid-channel system)?
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