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Cancer is one disease like infectious disease is one disease. Some things we thought were different are now seen as similar (BRAF V600E, for example), but the g
by niels_olson 11y ago
Cancer is one disease like infectious disease is one disease. Some things we thought were different are now seen as similar (BRAF V600E, for example), but the genes and proteins involved are usually radically different, one to the next. If anything, it's striking that our morphological classifications have withstood genetic scrutiny at all.
- nkozyra 11y agoExcept that infectious diseases have innumerable, dissonant final effects on the body. Cancers all basically do the same thing to different parts of the body. Which is why the notion of cutting the symptom (uncontrolled, mutated, undying cells) can be considered.