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Is anyone else terrified by this?

• ceejayoz 7y ago
  A six thousand year old cancer? Why?
  • sdinsn 7y ago
    What does the age of the cancer have to do with this?
    • ceejayoz 7y ago
      We've coexisted with it safely for six millennia. As such, it seems odd to be terrified of it.
      • sdinsn 7y ago
        SIV appeared somewhere between 1000 and 20000 years ago. Then ~100 years ago, it mutated to HIV and shortly after infected humans. We never know what could happen.
        • ceejayoz 7y ago
          By that logic, we should be terrified of everything.
• beat 7y ago
  Not as terrified as I was when one of our dogs got hemangiosarcoma, a canine-only cancer of the cells that line the inside of blood vessels. It took three weeks from the first symptoms to when he died. That's actually a long time - in many cases, the first symptom of the cancer is that the dog is dead.
• asdfman123 7y ago
  Nah, it's actually extremely treatable and slow to mutate.