I'm sorry, I think those were based on two year survival rates or some such like that, and thats all cancers but small cell lung averaged, not all types of cancers individually, and they are sure the hell more accurate than 3%. P.S. (not post script ya rum dum)Tumors are aggregations of cells, in some cases the pressure and contact inhibition hormones that result from a growth can spur cancer on, cancer is more likely in sites of injury. I'm not sure how much anatomy you have but inside of the body there aren't many positions that aren't life threatening. Cut off the blood flow or ICF flow or grow a hole through to the heart, lungs, liver, stomach, pancreas, bladder, spleen, spinal col;umn, brain or GI tract and you die. Cancer cells reproduce and form tumors, they metastasize and spread tumors to other areas, in the end it is the tumors that kill you. Yes Chemo doesn't work on all cancers, it works by making the body a lousy place to live and some cancers are tougher than we are, but it does kill many types of cancer cells, most are fast growing and that is their vulnerability. You need to learn a little bit about the physiology behind cancer before you make claims like that, Personally I am a cellular and molecular biology buff, and I have grown cancer cells in vitro and in organisms, and you \\sir haven't got a clue what you are talking about. Why are you so sure that Ty Bollinger isn't talking out his ass?

Pest management is complex, if you want to learn, a good place to start is here: Integrated Pest Management This lecture is presented in two parts. Each part is 90-minutes in length. Recorded in Sacramento County in California's Sacramento Valley, this lecture is by Mary Louise Flint, Ph.D., Director, IPM Education and Publications, UC Statewide IPM Project and Extension Entomologist & Cooperative Extension Specialist. Education: B.S. Plant Science, University of California, Davis Ph.D. Entomology, University of California, Berkeley Appointment: 100% Cooperative Extension Research Interests: Integrated pest management of landscape, agricultural and garden pests; biological control of arthropod pests; alternatives to pesticides; adoption of alternative practices by practitioners; innovative delivery of pest management information. Topics discussed in the Integrated Pest Management Lecture: * IPM references and resources * Preventing pest problems * Natural common enemies * Making less toxic pesticide choices * Controlling aphids, scales, caterpillars, coddling moths, tree borers, snails and slugs, and lawn insects. You can watch the programs now online: Just make sure you have Real Player installed or download it free. Integrated Pest Management Part1 90 minutes Integrated Pest Management Part 2 90 minutes You'll want to bookmark the following link to Professor Flint's Lab Research on: Controlling Pests in Gardens and Landscapes: Vegetables and Melons I promise you'll learn one or two things to put in your gardening bag of pest management arsenals. ;)

Daisy, Thanks for the link; that's good info. To all: Well, I might have barbequed crow soon! I'll be eating crow, or taking my foot out of my mouth, or whatever the proper expression should be! While asking around here about cement types I came to realize that I have had them backwards. We use type 2 most commonly and type 5 is used for special requests, usually desert type areas overseas, i.e., Middle East. So, I'll admit my mistake and take the consequences but I couldn't leave you all with the wrong info. (Its not likely that you are terribly concerned about pipe linings. It is the use of cement types and their purposes and curing them that got us into this discussion.) You all have been so generous to give information and tips to everyone who asks. I couldn't bear the thought of leaving bad info in this forum that might one day mislead someone.

Garnetmoth, are you able to share your psuedoscorpion pictures with us?!? I'd love to see them! I admit, I was vermicomposting for probably six years or so before I found my first psuedoscorpion in my own bin. Prior to that I'd only seen them in pictures. Like you, I was SO excited! Now I find them with some regularity. I wonder where they had been hiding for those first six years... Nearly everyone, regardless of their comfort level with vairous species and kingdoms of wildlife, has at least one critter with which they are uncomfortable. Despite my genuine love of bugs, my nemesis is scorpions. I just can't get comfortable with the things. Now, psuedoscorpions do not bother me at all,rather, like you, Garnetmoth, I think they're kinda cute, but their larger cousins are another matter all together. They just creep me out! And Chuckie, the quality of an answer to a forum post is often relative to the quality of the question. One of the things I most like about this site is the intelligent questions, and the fact that folks here are critical thinkers rather than blind followers. They question conventional wisdom, regardless of its source, and seem to be more interested in WHY something is done rather than blindly following "rules" for vermicomposting they may have read elsewhere. You, in fact, are chief among those who continually question, not from ego or a contrary nature, but because you seem more interested in knowing the basis for system management recommendations than the recomendations themselves. You and most of those who frequent this site seem more interested in LEARNING and UNDERSTANDING than in regurgitating someone else's facts. I admire that more than you likely know! And Garnetmoth, my hubby is a wine connoiseur with an educated palet and expensive taste. Me? I'm more a Boone's Farm kinda girl. Educated palet?!? Not in the least! Roy won't hesitate to spend upwards of $150 on a bottle of wine that I can't get past my nose, let alone into my mouth! He has much more sophisticated taste than I. Fortunate that we meet over a good microbrew or a high quality cup of coffee! Kelly S