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[HydrogenBond]

By nervous tissue and cancer, I was not referring to the nervous tissue getting cancer. Rather, if local nervous tissue dies then local cells will no longer benefit by the support role of nervous tissue. The result is they are out of the overall nervous loop and thereby more subject to changes such as cancer.

The reason I deduced this was that cancer often involves cells that go into continuous cell replication mode. This continuous cell cycle mode requires the membrane potential lower and stay low. If the local nervous tissue was present, its higher potential induction would inhibit this membrane change not allowing the process to move forward so fast. Cancer could still occur due to other factors, but renewed or amplified nervous tissue potential could explain spontaneous remission. The cancer cell are induced to stop replicating, allowing the immune system to catch up.

The nervous cell having a little brain of its own was overstated. Maybe intelligent capacitance is a better way to describe it. It may be something analogous to the way memory in some reflex actions is processed close to the muscles first and does not initially require the brain. The brain gets the signal and then secondary responds.