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Good thing, that cancer, in a manner of speaking, don't 'learn' and can't 'learn' from other tumors. This makes it possible to beat them.
by kiba 7y ago
Good thing, that cancer, in a manner of speaking, don't 'learn' and can't 'learn' from other tumors. This makes it possible to beat them.
- dogma1138 7y agoNot learning per se but cells do communicate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_signaling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_signaling so some evasion techniques from one tumor or one cancer cell can propagate to others through various signaling pathways when applicable. Basically a cancer cell might start shouting "yo bro you should totally try this..." and other cells that receive the signal and capable of doing that action might just happen to try it, in fact in some case this is just how you get cancer, one cell starts yelling chug chug chug and all the other cells around it get hammered.
- kiba 7y agoI meant that cancer cannot learn from other cancers of somebody else, unless they are infectious cancers.
- dogma1138 7y agoWell it’s not really clear form your original post since multiple cancers are quite common especially those which are linked to the same signaling pathways.
- 666_howitzer 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease