The other day the big toe on my left foot hurt. What I would have blown-off previously now became a worry that osteosarcoma was coming back! I googled. It didn't help. I wondered about my DNA. Was it programed to turn on osteosarcoma again?
(TP53 and RB1, two well known tumor suppressor genes, are altered in Osteosarcoma )
I began to worry about the telomeres caps on my chromosomes. The visual from PBS "Nature" looked something like a Q-tip floating in space. But then I remembered that stress and aging both contribute to destruction of telomeres. Oh No!
About this time I realized my toe didn't hurt anymore.
So I guess I wont be having my foot amputated after all.
I better figure out how not to be so fearful.
http://www.medindia.net/news/breakingnews/Nobel-Prize-in-Medicine-2009-58977-1.htm
http://www.nih.gov/researchmatters/november2009/11232009longevity.htm
http://atlasgeneticsoncology.org/Tumors/ConvOsteoID5344.html
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