Dr.Chitra Jacob graduated from Trivandrum Medical College and attained MRCPCH from the UK. She moved to Canada 10 years back and switched her career to health administration and continued as a faculty of Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada.
In 2020, she attained FISQua, Fellow of the International Society for Quality in health care (ISQua). ISQua is the accrediting body for Accreditation Canada and has members across the globe. Her focus is to build quality improvement capacity in medical students and faculty.
Cancer. The word itself strikes fear, bringing to mind a disease that feels like a betrayal from within. As the world's number-two killer, its a subject of immense research, with over a million papers published in the last fifty years alone. But what if our understanding of cancer is fundamentally flawed? What if this seemingly modern disease is not a chaotic accident of our genes, but a ghost of our evolutionary past, an ancient survival mechanism gone rogue? This perspective, while perhaps surprising, is gaining traction among scientists. It suggests that cancer is not a new invention of damaged cells, but a reversion to an older, more primitive way of life. To truly grasp this idea, we must embark on a journey back in time, over a billion years, to the very dawn of multicellular life. The Great Evolutionary Leap: From Individualism to Community For a staggering two billion years, life on Earth consisted solely of single-celled organisms. Their imperative was simple and si...

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