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Cancer is a fundamental dread of all higher multicellular life. It has always existed and will always exist.
by Odenwaelder 10y ago
Cancer is a fundamental dread of all higher multicellular life. It has always existed and will always exist.
- audessuscest 10y agoExactly.
- bootload 10y ago"Cancer is a fundamental dread of all higher multicellular life." Yes, we wouldn't exist if cell division didn't exist. Cell division is the basis of life and death.
- M_Grey 10y agoIt may not always exist, but what it would take to drive it out of our species would be no less than either incredibly sophisticated (not to mention ongoing) genetic engineering, very good nanotech that can intelligently monitor and control the process of division, or I suppose something like the "AutoDoc" from Larry Niven's 'Known Space' works. It's all very much science fiction now, but "always" is a long time. Still, I would place bets on our civilization taking it on the chin before we beat cancer entirely.
- gozur88 10y agoWhat you say is certainly true, but there is a large number of people who've managed to convince themselves you only get cancer if you've lived an unhealthy lifestyle. It never hurts to have headlines like this bubble to the top of the news heap.