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Talk:Healing touch
Heal vs Cure
Cancer is not just an injury that can be repaired. It's an ongoing disease condition in which mutated cells reproduce in an uncontrolled fashion. To cure cancer, Austin had to stop the uncontrolled growth of cancer cells as well as repair the damage to his mother's liver. To my mind, cancer is a disease you have to cure, not just an injury you have to heal. --Ted C 16:47, 27 March 2007 (EDT)
- I know what cancer is, as having many family members with it. The reason why I reworded it was due to the nature of the narrative while the flashback occurred. He talked about organs failing, and how he healed them. In a way, he healed his mother by regrowing healthy cells versus cancer cells. For instance, research now in the field of "curing" cancer is regrowing healthy tissue instead of cancerous tissue, or organ cells instead of cancer cells, and removing the cancer cells. Again, the reason why I rephrased the description was because the ability is known as "healing", so I put it in terms of healing versus curing. Plus, who's to say that his mother was cured of cancer? She merely got better than her previous state, then he left. --Bob 16:56, 27 March 2007 (EDT)
- Given that we don't anything about how Austin's mother fared after he left home, then, I don't have any further objection either way. --Ted C 17:03, 27 March 2007 (EDT)
- I have tried to update the entry to reflect exactly what we know about th incident. --Ted C 17:06, 27 March 2007 (EDT)
- Sounds like what I was trying to do. Good job.--Bob 18:59, 27 March 2007 (EDT)