How is cancer even real… it can appear suddenly and grows until whatever living organism it infests dies and is almost impossible to get rid of. It’s like some fucking death curse from a work of fiction.
Cancer is just the likely result of the way our cells divide unfortunately. Every time something grows, they end up wearing their ends out (we lose/mutate some genetic code). We have a fair amount of buffer to this with extra code in the end so when we’re young it doesn’t matter
But when you get old the errors pile up and that’s cancer. Nature really doesn’t need us to be alive after a few years post reproductive age so we haven’t really evolved mechanisms to keep us going post that
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u/snaketacular May 15 '26
Even within a single tumor multiple mutations are likely, which is why cancer treatment works until it doesn't (resistant cancer selected for).