The art of Metastasis and a Concerned Doctor

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"I am not worried of your tumor. We can remove it." he silently added,
"Dear, What I am concerned is of its relocation; its metastasis. It is malignant"

Silence.

"The tumor is malignant ?"

The Doctor runs his long fingers across his thick broad forehead; at least that was what he did when he was frustrated. A decade and a half of experience with cancer patients did not evade his fear for the dreaded disease and never did he get away with the frustration when he made it a point of easy note to his patient." A malignant tumor is not self-limited in its growth, is capable of invading into adjacent tissues, and may be capable of spreading to distant tissues (metastasizing) ", "Lady, you are a little late." He knew there was a cure and he knew it was not easy.

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I remember my silence at the doctors cabin then, years ago when I was just a little boy. I thought she had fever. What else would disease mean to a twelve year old ? Aunt never escaped the clutches of the dreaded disease. The tumor in itself was curable, but the malignancy was not. It relocated every time you removed it, bringing misery to the entire system.

The system, the malignancy, the tumor.

Years after, when I got to realize the entire anecdote, and what else disease could mean, the word metastasis never spelled in style.

To me Metastasis meant many a things. Metastasis could be everywhere in a system; in your society, in a family, in a relation, in an administration, in science, in arts. And all that I could relate metastasis was to how a phenomenon relocates itself, increasing its intensity and extent.

Much to the fear of the word, I thought of how metastasis could be positive; how metastasis could be employed - and a theory struck.

It opens me to a theory where a compromise between quandary and management could easily find a solution to the undesired episode. Simply, it means that the impact of the episode be transferred from the strata of its origin to a higher strata where the management of the crisis could itself be simple. Just imagine if you could control the metastasis of a tumor? Like if you could relocate a tumor in the vital organ to a trivial organ ?
Imagine the same in a broader perspective and hence you see the society.

" The Social Metastasis "