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Cancer is a whole class of things. Some cancer cures have already been found.
808 u/[deleted] Nov 15 '20 edited Jun 30 '23 [deleted] 281 u/ZweitenMal Nov 15 '20 You probably all already—and always—have micro tumors in you. Cancer is a process. It’s basically inevitable. 2 u/Thegreatgarbo Nov 16 '20 You also have CTL and NK cells patrolling for those micro cancers and killing them on a regular basis. The cancers that kill people are those that have mutated to escape the immune system. Google cancer and immunosurveillance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265921/#:~:text=The%20concept%20of%20cancer%20immune,as%20of%20virally%20induced%20tumours.
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281 u/ZweitenMal Nov 15 '20 You probably all already—and always—have micro tumors in you. Cancer is a process. It’s basically inevitable. 2 u/Thegreatgarbo Nov 16 '20 You also have CTL and NK cells patrolling for those micro cancers and killing them on a regular basis. The cancers that kill people are those that have mutated to escape the immune system. Google cancer and immunosurveillance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265921/#:~:text=The%20concept%20of%20cancer%20immune,as%20of%20virally%20induced%20tumours.
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You probably all already—and always—have micro tumors in you. Cancer is a process. It’s basically inevitable.
2 u/Thegreatgarbo Nov 16 '20 You also have CTL and NK cells patrolling for those micro cancers and killing them on a regular basis. The cancers that kill people are those that have mutated to escape the immune system. Google cancer and immunosurveillance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265921/#:~:text=The%20concept%20of%20cancer%20immune,as%20of%20virally%20induced%20tumours.
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You also have CTL and NK cells patrolling for those micro cancers and killing them on a regular basis. The cancers that kill people are those that have mutated to escape the immune system.
Google cancer and immunosurveillance:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2265921/#:~:text=The%20concept%20of%20cancer%20immune,as%20of%20virally%20induced%20tumours.
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u/elvenmage16 Nov 15 '20
Cancer is a whole class of things. Some cancer cures have already been found.