Cancer is by definition not stable, if it’s stable it’s just tissue.
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PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 2 years ago
So something I’ve always wondered is if it would be possible for a “stable” form of cancer to eventually metastasize an entire person, and then that person just becomes a walking living tumor but is entirely stable.
kerrigan778@lemmy.world 2 years ago
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 years ago
I think that’s like asking if a fire can burn down an entire house but end up remodling it. Isn’t cancer defined by its destructive traits?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I mean, not exactly. Cancer currently kills us because it figured out a version of immortality that will currently outperform your cells. It is theoretically possible for our cells to mutate in such a way that they have the specific genes that certain jellyfish have, allowing them to become “immortal” by not continuing ad infinatum, and instead having the cell “rebirth” itself like the legendary Phoenix. Rather than what cancer currently does, which seems to be, a cell forgets how to die and starts replicating its mutated form out of control.
blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I wouldn’t say ‘outperform’… Cell death is a deliberate and desirable feature. Without it, we’d be unable to repair damage.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I was using outperform in the evolutionary sense. As in they stick around
Rusty@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
That’s how Ted Cruz was born.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Ted Cruz had better not be Deadpool.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 years ago
Happy cake day!
Maalus@lemmy.world 2 years ago
No
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
That is basically the origin story for Deadpool.