• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    8 hours ago

    I have heard some interesting argument recently that cancers are probably caused by the body intentionally.

    The argument was something like “cancers fulfill the role that programmed cell death fulfills for individual cells”, i.e. it’s a form of suicide. That’s surprisingly good news (if true) because it means that cancer formation is controlled by signal pathways, which could be hacked.

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      7 hours ago

      Biologically, this argument makes no sense, it’s almost certainly written by somebody not familiar with physiology and just trying to sound poetic. That or a journalists severely misinterpreting a quote or analogy from a researcher, which also happens quite a lot.

      Cancers have a gigantic variety of causes, but a purposeful signaling pathway is not one.