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I never dared to ask- but- do cancer cells age? How does a tumor behave if he gets to live longer then its own behaviour would allow to expect?
by Pica_soO 9y ago
I never dared to ask- but- do cancer cells age? How does a tumor behave if he gets to live longer then its own behaviour would allow to expect?
- Balgair 9y agoCancer is a strange beast. Some types of tumors do not 'age' like usual, some are 'hyper aged', some die off at incredible rates, but reproduce at even higher rates. Really, cancer cells are so wracked with errors and DNA damage, typically, that they really aren't the species that they grew up in anymore. For one instance, some tumor metabolisms are radically different than what is 'normal', more different than even what is seen in even prokaryotes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warburg_effect