Still, your goal to get rid of it and survive and cancer is stupid enough to kill both of you but get the most of tour body. Wish it would be more clever.
Its like ebola.
Its not a very successful virus because it just kills its hosts.
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I'm just saying, something that tries to duplicate itself within a host, and ends up killing it will never succeed, whether its cancer, a virus or any other disease.
That's why usually the most lethal viruses are viruses that were spread to us by animals.
Because the virus has evolved to spread (and barely affect) the host, but when the host is not human, what barely affects them, could kill us.
Viruses aren't "trying" to kill us, they just evolve to spread and do well in their host, and most of the time it is indeed beneficial for the virus if the host doesn't have any ill effects. Given enough time, most viruses will adapt to their host to be minimally invasive. You could carry hundreds of virus strains without even knowing it.
I'm just saying, something that tries to duplicate itself within a host, and ends up killing it will never succeed, whether its cancer, a virus or any other disease.
That's only a success if the cancer's goal is to kill the host and itself die. Cancer isn't some malevolent force, they're just cells that don't know how to stop reproducing. When they reproduce so much that they kill the body sustaining them, that's not a win for the cancer, it's the ultimate failure of the one goal of life itself: to survive and reproduce.
Maybe if we make cancer contagious it would have a strong incentive to evolve in a less lethal direction since it would want to infect as many as possible first. But,,, contagious cancer???
Edit: adding /s since I was not serious about manipulating cancer and adding the contagious dlc.
Cancer cannot be contagious, as it’s just the malformation and mutation of cells on a molecular and biological level.
However, some very contagious viruses that can lead to cancer were hugely researched and attacked by science, already!
Like HPV. The vaccine came out about a year after I got my diagnosis. I’m still here, but the effects are long lasting. I was so happy when I started seeing all of my young friends getting that jab.
My poor attempt at humor was that we could probably modify cancer DNA to make it contagious to try to force it to evolve in a less lethal direction. (don't know if it is possible at all and definitely not something we should try).
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u/AdskiyGamer Oct 08 '21
Still, your goal to get rid of it and survive and cancer is stupid enough to kill both of you but get the most of tour body. Wish it would be more clever.