But no matter how much effort we expend, not everything is potentially within our control, not even our own bodies and minds. This to me is the first lesson of the macrophages that perversely promote lethal cancers. The body—or, to use more cutting-edge language, the “mindbody”—is not a smooth-running machine in which each part obediently performs its tasks for the benefit of the common good. It is at best a confederation of parts—cells, tissues, even thought patterns—that may seek to advance their own agendas, whether or not they are destructive of the whole. What, after all, is cancer, other
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