Cancer & the Bone: putting the potato in couch potato

You think you know, but you have no idea.....how interesting this is!

Saturday, August 25^th 2007

Most people think of the bone as the Sahara desert, dry, uninhabitable and god-forsakenly boring. Yet most of us know the barren sands hide a myriad of lifeforms, from cacti to lizards and snakes, all in their own way capable of surviving the tundra. The bone is somewhat similar to this analogy, we don't think much of it, other bodily organs seem so much more fascinating than the humble human skeleton. Yet, the bone is a dramatically dynamic environment, constantly sustaining our basic mobility. My interest in the bone begins with the fact that breast and prostate cancers (yes, the miniscule beasts which has gained much notoriety) absolutely adore spreading to the bone. As I slowly truck along my million-mile journey, hopefully I can impart some understanding and perhaps interesting facts for those of you willing or curious to know why cancers are the potatoes to the bone couch.

Posted at 10:43am by lilaineooi.

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