"The implication that immortality = cancer does not follow." Indeed, cellular immortality may be cancer when it gets against apoptosis and it's just a natural

"The implication that immortality = cancer does not follow." Indeed, cellular immortality may be cancer when it gets against apoptosis and it's just a natural thing when not. Cancer as well comprises a wider range of anomalous cellular developments that most often does not turn off the apoptosis. The metaphor however was about selfishness, on individual organism and cell level.