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Isn’t the body hostile to cancerous cells too?
by jolux 5y ago
Isn’t the body hostile to cancerous cells too?
- f38zf5vdt 5y agoUp to a point. Cancer is the result of multiple mutations to growth regulation genes and immunogenic factors that collectively lead to immortal cell lines that are able to evade the immune system. The more mutations you introduce to try to immortalize your cell lines, the closer they get to becoming pathologically cancer.