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Some of the descendant cancer cells might lose their capacity for spreading and survival, but wouldn't selection favor those that maintain it? Is there really
by DavidSJ 17y ago
Some of the descendant cancer cells might lose their capacity for spreading and survival, but wouldn't selection favor those that maintain it? Is there really any reason to believe that its reproduction fidelity is so low that there wouldn't be enough non-mutated cells in each generation?
- stcredzero 17y ago"spreading and survival" are contextual. "Cheater" cells might out-compete other tumor cells locally, but at the cost of the cancer surviving long term and successfully spreading elsewhere.