December 2007 follow up: "Is melanoma simply a vitamin D deficiency cancer?"

December 2007 follow up: "Is melanoma simply a vitamin D deficiency cancer?"

TO: All melanoma researchers, doctors, and patients.


Melanoma incidence has been increasing right before our very eyes,
alarmingly affecting much younger ages than in the past, and yet we
still do not know what is causing it. Why not?

It couldn't be from a lack of technology, as microscopes and surgical
techniques have been around for well over a century. Nor could it be
from a lack of data, as libraries are filled beyond capacity with
numerous volumes of wide-ranging studies. And it couldn't even be a
lack of education, as many researchers now sport both MD and PhD
degrees. Indeed, could it actually be our inability to think outside
the box that is preventing us from finally solving the melanoma
mystery?

Scientist and endocrinologist Dr. Hans Selye, who first applied the
concept of stress to medicine in pioneering the general adaptation
syndrome, best explains in his famous book about "The Stress of Life"
with his passage on discovery: "There are two ways of detecting
something that no one has yet seen: one is to aim at the finest detail
by getting as close as possible with the best available analyzing
instruments; the other is merely to look at things from a new angle
where they show hitherto unexposed facets. The former requires money
and experience; the latter presupposes neither; indeed, it is actually
aided by simplicity, the lack of prejudice, and the absence of those
established habits of thinking which tend to come after long years of
work. The general adaptation syndrome could have been discovered
during the Middle Ages, if not earlier; its recognition did not depend
upon the development of any complicated pieces of apparatus, new
techniques of observation, nor even upon much training, ingenuity, or
intelligence, as far as that goes, but merely upon an unbiased state
of mind, a fresh point of view."

James Semmel
Albuquerque, New Mexico





reference:
* w w w .mpip.org/cgi-bin/mpip/dbforum.pl?db=main bb&post=405223
Last month's follow up to the 4th annual discussion: "Is melanoma
simply a vitamin D deficiency cancer?"

Re: December 2007 follow up: "Is melanoma simply a vitamin D deficiency cancer?"

"James Semmel" wrote > TO: All melanoma researchers, doctors, and patients.
>
>
> Melanoma incidence has been increasing right before our very eyes,
> alarmingly affecting much younger ages than in the past, and yet we
> still do not know what is causing it. Why not?
>
> It couldn't be from a lack of technology, as microscopes and surgical
> techniques have been around for well over a century. Nor could it be
> from a lack of data, as libraries are filled beyond capacity with
> numerous volumes of wide-ranging studies. And it couldn't even be a
> lack of education, as many researchers now sport both MD and PhD
> degrees. Indeed, could it actually be our inability to think outside
> the box that is preventing us from finally solving the melanoma
> mystery?
>
> Scientist and endocrinologist Dr. Hans Selye, who first applied the
> concept of stress to medicine in pioneering the general adaptation
> syndrome, best explains in his famous book about "The Stress of Life"
> with his passage on discovery: "There are two ways of detecting
> something that no one has yet seen: one is to aim at the finest detail
> by getting as close as possible with the best available analyzing
> instruments; the other is merely to look at things from a new angle
> where they show hitherto unexposed facets.

A third is to get a dog:
* w w w .scienceagogo . com /news/20060005201345data_trunc_sys.shtml


The former requires money
> and experience; the latter presupposes neither; indeed, it is actually
> aided by simplicity, the lack of prejudice, and the absence of those
> established habits of thinking which tend to come after long years of
> work. The general adaptation syndrome could have been discovered
> during the Middle Ages, if not earlier; its recognition did not depend
> upon the development of any complicated pieces of apparatus, new
> techniques of observation, nor even upon much training, ingenuity, or
> intelligence, as far as that goes, but merely upon an unbiased state
> of mind, a fresh point of view."
>
> James Semmel
> Albuquerque, New Mexico
>
>
>
>
>
> reference:
> * w w w .mpip.org/cgi-bin/mpip/dbforum.pl?db=main_bb&post=405223
> Last month's follow up to the 4th annual discussion: "Is melanoma
> simply a vitamin D deficiency cancer?"