Tuesday, December 06, 2005

haven't you heard that i'm the new cancer/ never looked better, and you can't stand it

i saw how they grow cancer cells yesterday.. in these plastic bottles, and it's orangey liquid because of the cow serum (we will not discuss details of that. gross).

mandy (2:00:23 AM): i would like
mandy (2:00:30 AM): point and swear at it for a while or something.
mandy (2:00:36 AM): GOD D**** YOU, LEUKEMIA!! >:o

i even stared inside the bottles for awhile, almost expecting some life-size leukemia cancer cell to come jumping out at me and start stabbing me with something sharp. though nothing of that sort happened.. i did wonder if you ingested that stuff, could you get cancer? the answer: the second you ingested it, your body's immune system would kill the cells, because your body recognizes that they aren't yours. which is why cancer is not contagious. this is the oversimplified explanation.

thank you for listening.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Do they know what happens if you get cancerous stem-cells transplanted into your body? I don't know much about biology, but I wonder if the required chemotherapy treatments before hand would kill most of your normal cells as it does, and then, if the cancerous cells would multiply and survive... Or, if your immune system would still somehow fight it.

I hate cancer, I still would have at least muttered curses at it under my breath.