Question:
Can anyone tell me what substance there is that is a "quick acting cancer agent"? I'm no expert on cancer, but I am intrigued as to whether there is such a carcinogen.
Answer:
This doesn't make a lot of sense. You do not get melanoma from an
injured or festering toe - unless the melanoma actually started as a
melanoma of the toe, which is quite possible.
Melanomas of the soles of the feet, palms, or nailbeds are known as
acral lentiginous melanomas. Let me quote from the American Cancer
Society Textbook of Clinical Oncology: "Although this growth pattern
makes up only 2% to 8% of melanomas in Caucasians, it constitutes 35% to
60% of melanomas in dark-skinned patients . . . Subungual melanomas
appear as brown to black discolorations under the nailbed, usually that
of the great toe or thumb. Ulceration is common in neglected lesions and
is often mistaken for a fungal infection."
That would seem to fit the bill. I don't see how you could induce an
acral lentiginous melanoma by injection or any other means . . even
assuming you could get hold of some "melanoma cells" (ie malignantly
transformed melanocytes) to inject in the first place.
Secondly, I remain unconvinced that there is any rapidly-acting
injectable agent that will cause cancer; and I doubt if one cell cr
several cells could do it in someone with a competent immune system. If
you wanted to kill someone, I don't think that melanoma would rank in
the top thousand ways to do it. So I'm afraid that the conspiracy
theorists will have to try a bit harder on this one.
