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[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 17 points 1 week ago

So something I've always wondered is if it would be possible for a "stable" form of cancer to eventually metastasize an entire person, and then that person just becomes a walking living tumor but is entirely stable.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago

That is basically the origin story for Deadpool.

[-] kerrigan778@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Cancer is by definition not stable, if it's stable it's just tissue.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

I think that's like asking if a fire can burn down an entire house but end up remodling it. Isn't cancer defined by its destructive traits?

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mean, not exactly. Cancer currently kills us because it figured out a version of immortality that will currently outperform your cells.

It is theoretically possible for our cells to mutate in such a way that they have the specific genes that certain jellyfish have, allowing them to become "immortal" by not continuing ad infinatum, and instead having the cell "rebirth" itself like the legendary Phoenix.

Rather than what cancer currently does, which seems to be, a cell forgets how to die and starts replicating its mutated form out of control.

[-] blind3rdeye@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

I wouldn't say 'outperform'... Cell death is a deliberate and desirable feature. Without it, we'd be unable to repair damage.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

I was using outperform in the evolutionary sense. As in they stick around

[-] Rusty@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

That's how Ted Cruz was born.

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Ted Cruz had better not be Deadpool.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago

Happy cake day!

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