The Role of Mechanoreceptors in Cancer

If you transfer the nucleus of a cancer cell into a non cancer cell, it doesn't become cancerous. And so many mutations that you see oncogenic mutations in a tumour, you see the same mutations next to the tumour and elsewhere in the body. I'm amazed that this hasn't caught on more. As soon as you're a cell that basically partially or completely disconnects from that network, now you're the border of yourself is tiny. That's it. At that point, you roll back to the kinds of goals that single cell creatures can pursue,. which is proliferation and migration to where life is good.

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