[JOAT]

Touchy aren't we? Evidently YOU are 'smarter than a doctor' or maybe impressed by your 'understanding' of cancer.

Go ahead Nobel Laureate, answer your own question and rid us of the scourge!

Oh wait, maybe you're just another keyboard pounding know-it-all....

[RegulatorCountry]

Nah, just ODD (oppositional defiant disorder). Drag out your DSM-IV and check it out ... a classic specimen.

Always on the opposite side of anything approaching a consensus on FR.

There are several of them here. Evolution and birth certificate threads really bring them out of the woodwork.

[allmendream]

The reason that around 50% of cancers have the p53 gene mutated into inoperability is that the p53 gene starts the process whereby cells kill themselves (apoptosis).

It is a valuable process for a multi-cellular organism to allow cancerous cells to kill themselves.

Those cancers that have a p53 mutation are not subject to this process of p53 induced apoptosis.

Thus the of the cancers that grow and survive within the body long enough to be detected; around 50% have already shut off the mechanism whereby the cell would be instructed to kill itself.