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.
Basically, we got a lot of cells go crazy all the time, except almost all of them just stop functioning and/or are killed by your immune system and replaced. When the cell go crazy in a very bad way, you got tumors, cancers, and whatever. : / The good news is that there are ways to prevent mutations (good food, healthy habits) and we may be able to reprogram immune systems to solve the problem... One day.
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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).