The Mind-Body Network

The human body is a system made up of muscles, bones, organs, other physical features, and a communication network where each group of the body will communicate with another signaling low oxygen and blood levels, and movement of major muscles (Cho 2010). This function must work at a homeostatic level constantly or it can cause one’s body to become an unbalanced, unhealthy state. Such a thing that could cause this unbalanced state is Cancer. Cancer can be defined as: a development in which transformed cells acquire the ability to disregard the constraints of its environment and the body normal control mechanisms (Cho 2010). A Cancerous tumor can be very detrimental to what Dr. William C. S. Cho calls, the mind body network, seeking balance in the body and mind correspondingly.  This is because a tumor can disturb the natural flow of blood, hormones, and other bodily movements, because the tumor demands it to survive.