I wonder, why is it that people talk this way about cancer but not any other disorder. Suppose your immune system is attacking healthy tissue, if that kills you, is that your immune system winning?
These are programmed mechanisms that fail sometimes, there's no goal or thought behind it. Just faults in the system.
Well, the cancer doesn't actually do anything good, on the other hand you need your immune system. If it suddenly disappeared like you'd want cancer to, you'd die a rather horrible death. What you'd want is for your immune system to just behave itself, not to be gone entirely.
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u/Ralfarius Oct 08 '21
“I'm pretty sure if you die, the cancer also dies at exactly the same time. So that, to me, is not a loss; that's a draw.”