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 INTNODUCTION TO PART ONE
Cancer in man has been likened to a crab from the time of Hippocrates.
The symbolism has been almost universally accepted. This paranoiac
symbolism-cancer as a weird creature that clutches, and, kills-can be
carried to perfection were we to replace the crab by an octopus. The
octopus has "cold, wicked-looking eyes" and is "one of the most repulsive of
all inimals." It resembles human or animal cancer in having neither an
endo- nor an exoskeleton. The crab has an exoskeleton that immediately
distinguishes it from the proverbially non-shelled (non-capsulated) cancer.
With eight sucker-bearing tentacles providing it with a spread of up to 30
feet, the octopus is vicious, predaceous and carnivorous. Very much like
cancer, it is swift, chameleonic, and has a protective ink screen that camou-
flages it and paralyzes its attackers. It is itself imrnune to cancer and has,
as its chief food and victim, the crab. The octopus has killed many a man;
the c.rab, never. The only harm that may have come to humans off the erab
is a benign pinch while walking or sunbathing on the seashore. T'he crab is a
decapod, but only two of its ten feet form the pincers. The octopus uses all
its head-feet for holding, sucking, and killing its victim. It is interesting to
note that the doubly greater killer of man-coronary heart disease-has not
yet been paranoiacally symbolized.
Part One presents and evolves new concepts (Ch. 1) on cancerogenesis.
Cancer is an intrinsic, time-governed, senescent process, a part of proto-
plasm's biolytic repertoire. The concepts of cytomorphosis (Ch' 2) and finite
iifetime of dividing cells (Ch. 3) impart the hitherto missing vital temporal
dimension to cancerogenesis, thus explaining its occurrence at any age in
man from early prenatal life to the time of third dentition. The concept of
cancer-genome (Ch. 4) vests into a normal cell the faculty of deciding whether
or not to turn cancerous in the absence or despite the presence of the
so-called cancerogens. Chapter 5 exposes the myth of cancerogens and
presents their true mode of action-mere temporal advancement of cancer.
The chapter on "Latency" puts an end to this nebulous concept. In Chapter
?, the prevailing semantic confusion in cancerology is brought to the fore, and
an att-mpt made at eusemantics. Although the great Virchow is reported
to have rtmarked that no man, even under torture, could exactly define what
cancer ("tumor") is, Chapter 7 defines cancer clearly, in many ways. In
the proposed eusemantics, the term tumor is replaced by aneuplasm, and a
case made for dispensing with the emotive appellations, benign and malignant.