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wouldnt a cell evolve to find food from other sources?

• anon4 11y ago
  I'm guessing it doesn't have enough food stored (if any) to carry on dividing and mutating once you've stopped its food supply.
• drmilsurp 11y ago
  if by evolve you mean secrete VEGF to stimulate vascularization and thereby bring food from more sources, sure
• FeepingCreature 11y ago
  As opposed to diseases, cancer is new every time. If somebody's cancer cells evolve to become resistant to some treatment, this resistance cannot spread to other people. As such, you're only looking at evolution in a comparatively small ecosystem and over comparatively short times. So "yes, but not necessarily".