Sunday 9 January 2011

Suddent Spurt of Disease (cancer etc.)

पूर्वजन्मकृतं पापां व्याधिरूपेण पीडितम्।। (1)
अत्युत्कटैः पुण्यपापै रिहैव फल मश्नुते।।  (2)

pūrvajanmakr̥taṁ pāpāṁ vyādhirūpēṇa pīḍitam.. (1)
atyutkaṭaiḥ puṇyapāpai rihaiva phala maśnutē..(2)
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There are two questions, which baffle humanity since time immemorial.
1) Why deseases (and Afflications) occur? Why should there occur in the life a person, with or without the family (gene) history.
2) Why should the desease become active, at a particular juncture, without any apparent reason.
Probability theory points out wearing out of the immunity mechanism to counter the desease, for the spurt; if not any external factors of viral attack etc.

But again, why should it wear out and lose its battle against desease at this particular juncture? Answers are hard to be found. Especially in life threatening ailments such as AIDS, Cancer etc. One fine (or bad) morning/ hourthe deseased person becomed deceased. (It is fine hour, because the soul decides to forsake this old obsolete body in search of greener pastures.)

But, why now; after all these hours/ weeks/ years. (A person with diagnosis of 99% heart's artery blockade survives years and many attacks, where as one single stroke ends life in another). 

Sudden spurt of pain, aggravates the situation further. Though researches fail to give adequate and satisfactory answer fully, the Sastra theory of Karma, explains this.

The Praarabha Karma shall be experienced, thru desease and affliction. 
For an example: If you cause harm to a disabled/ less abled person; rightly or wrongly with an intention of cuasing hurt; you are bound to enjoy the fruit. Even though the person, may not retaliate physically, you will have it in some other form such as a fall, desease, injury, accident etc. If the harm is too grave and high, the ill effect will be sooner. 
 (My own personal experience amply proved this.)

But, scientific establishment still gropes for an answer for this sudden spurt. Now, British Scientists, came out with a finding, which says that Cell Explosion causes sudden bouts of cancer. (But our million dollar question remains - why the explosion should happen at all? and Why now?)
Read on....
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British scientists have decoded the mystery of why 'instant cancers' seemingly appear out of nowhere.

The finding from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK contradicts the long-held theory that thousands of mutations over a lifetime cause cancer.

It also helps explain why some people are diagnosed with cancer only months after x-rays or other tests fail to detect traces of the disease, the journal Cell reports.

The discovery was based on the genetic flaws in 750 tumours. In most cases, the damage to chromosomes upheld the conventional picture of cancer creeping up over the years, according to the Daily Mail.

But at least one tumour in 40 didn't fit the pattern. Instead, the damage appeared to have been done almost overnight.

Researcher Peter Campbell said: "The results astounded us. It seems that in a single cell, in a single event, one or more of the chromosomes explode - literally into hundreds of fragments."

If the cell then botches the repair, stitching the fragments back together in a 'higgledy piggledy' fashion, the damage to its genome, or cache of DNA, leaves it ripe for the rapid development of cancer.

Campbell said: "They attempt to reconstruct the unreconstructable and they wind up with a disastrous genome that shortens the road to cancer."

The phenomenon is particularly common in bone cancers, where the distinct pattern of damage is seen in up to one in four cases. But it is thought to be to blame for more than one in 40 of all cases of the disease.

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