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HARUN YAHYA
operate, or what gives them the order to start and stop dividing. The
only thing we know is when these limits are not adhered to, cancer
starts. And as long as cancer cells have a supply of nutrients they can
multiply as much as they like.
The source of their nutrients is the body they live in. The circula-
tory system that supplies blood and nutrients to the body's 100 trillion
normal cells also carries these needed nutrients to cancerous cells.
Available blood vessels, however, are not enough to feed these greedy
cells which multiply so rapidly. But cancer cells overcome this obsta-
cle by stimulating the cells next to them to produce new blood vessels.
Research has shown that cancerous cells secrete a substance that caus-
es blood vessels to develop. In this way, new blood vessels reach right
into the mass of cancer cells, allowing them to keep on dividing. It is
still not known exactly what this secretion is, anything about its prop-
erties or how it affects cells. But as the blood vessels grow and trans-
port more nutrients, the cancer grows also.
This is truly amazing: In order to survive and multiply, a cancer-
ous cell synthesizes a substance that modern technology can neither
understand nor duplicate. This substance causes blood vessel cells to
form new vessels to bring them nutrients. This point leaves us with an
unavoidable question: How did the cancer cell gain such knowledge?
In order for it to do all this by itself, the cancer cell must have
solved the mysteries of stimulating blood vessels and must be able to
secrete a substance accordingly, which will activate new bloods vessel
and bring them into service. Should we see the cancer cell as possess-
ing greater intelligence than ourselves?
Another important point is that the first diseased cell that began
the cancer wasn't a cancerous cell from birth. It appeared to be nor-
mal, but suddenly with an unknown command, it degenerated and
became cancerous. So if it has become a cancer cell after, where did it
learn the formula for that amazing fluid we mentioned earlier that
influenced blood vessels to produce new vessels which would nour-
ish the cancer cells?

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