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It seems that cancer is a direct result to injury. If you smoke, you damage your lung tissue, and then lung cancer arises.
研究表明，癌癥是由損傷直接導致的，如果你吸煙，損害了你的肺部組織，就會引起肺癌。
If you drink, you damage your liver, and then liver cancer occurs.
如果你喝酒，損害了你的肝臟，就會引起肝癌。
And it was really interesting -- there were articles correlating if you have a bone fracture, and then bone cancer arises.
有趣的是，很多文獻中都有相似的研究結果，如果你骨折，就會引起骨瘤。
It seems that, because what stem cells are -- they're these phenomenal cells that really have the ability to differentiate into any type of tissue.
起因是干細胞的特性——這些驚人細胞的確有分化的能力，在任何類型的組織中。
So, if the body is sensing that you have damage to an organ and then it's initiating cancer, it's almost as if this is a repair response.
因此，如果身體感應到有受損器官，它就按下了癌癥的啟動按鈕，把它當成一種修復反應。
And the cancer, the body is saying the lung tissue is damaged, we need to repair the lung.
身體說肺組織受到了損害，需要修復，
And cancer is originating in the lung trying to repair -- because you have this excessive proliferation of these remarkable cells that really have the potential to become lung tissue.
癌癥便由此而生 試圖修復的過程中，這些細胞會過度增生，這些細胞有成為肺組織的潛力。
But it's almost as if the body has originated this ingenious response, but can't quite control it.
不過，好像身體引發了這個巧妙的反應程序，卻不能完全控制它。
It hasn't yet become fine-tuned enough to finish what has been initiated. So this really, really fascinated me.
它不能精確調整這個已經開始的過程，因此，這真的，真的使我著迷。
And I really think that we can't think about cancer -- let alone any disease -- in such black-and-white terms.
我真的認為，我們不能用非黑即白的眼光，來看待癌癥——更不用說是其他疾病了。
If we eliminate cancer the way we're trying to do now, with chemotherapy and radiation, we're bombarding the body or the cancer with toxins, or with radiation, trying to kill it.
如果我們用化療和放療去治愈癌癥，我們在用毒素或輻射轟擊身體或癌細胞，試圖殺死它。
It's almost as if we're getting back to this starting point.
這可能會讓我們回到起點。
We're removing the cancer cells, but we're revealing the previous damage that the body has tried to fix.
我們是在消除癌細胞，但同時身體也會試圖修復這些，一再被揭開的損傷。
Shouldn't we think about manipulation, rather than elimination?
我們是不是應該思考如何控制癌細胞，而不是消除它們？
If somehow we can cause these cells to differentiate -- to become bone tissue, lung tissue, liver tissue, whatever that cancer has been put there to do -- it would be a repair process.
如果我們可以想辦法使這些細胞分化，成為骨組織，肺組織，肝組織，不管哪個部位的癌細胞，那將會是一個修復損傷的過程。
We'd start off and better than we were before cancer. So, this really changed my view of looking at cancer.
我們會得到比以前治療更好的結果。因此，這確實改變了我對癌癥的看法。
And while I was reading all these articles about cancer, it seemed that the articles -- a lot of them -- focused on, you know, the genetics of breast cancer,
當我在閱讀癌癥的相關文獻時，發現其中很多文獻都把重點放在乳腺癌的基因。
and the genesis and the progression of breast cancer -- tracking the cancer through the body, tracing where it is, where it goes.
和乳腺癌的成因與發展，在身體中追蹤癌癥，跟蹤它，看看它會擴散到哪里。
