2018 Volume 64 Issue 2 Pages 128-130
Cancer in its early stages are approximately 1 cm. Actually, we can now detect cancers are as small as 0.5 cm, and it is safe to say that almost all cancers up to 1 cm can be completely and effectively treated. The weight of a 1-cm cancer is 1 gram. The size of a single cancer cell is about 20 microns. This means that it takes about 10 9 cancer cells to make up a 1 cm-cancer. In a time where a cancer with 10 9 cells can be treated 100%, you can imagine how silly it is for a scientist to be desperately looking for a single cell of cancer. It is said to take about 20 years for a clinical cancer to develop. If someone discovers cancer at the age of 40, it means that cancer budded when the patient was 20 years old. In fact, only one in thousands of cancer buds fully blossoms.