Cancer is very scary, however it’s mechanics are incredibly interesting. A cell acquires a mutation that causes it to bypass multiple checkpoints in cell division and divide uncontrollably. The scary part about cancer is that it can happen anywhere and in any tissue. Cancer can also happen for any reason at all. You can be the most healthy person in the world and your cells can make a mistake which leads to uncontrollable division. The worst part is your body doesn’t know to target these cells. Your body provides the cells with energy for them to divide at expedited rates. Your body can’t tell them apart because they are technically your cells, there is nothing that jumps out at the immune system and says hey we aren’t supposed to be here. There are really good drugs to combat cancer. But even with modern techniques and medicine it is still incredibly hard for cancer to be completely beat. And even if the cancer is beat it can come back or it can even come back in a different location of the body. It is honestly incredible that with the amount the cells in our body divide that more cancerous mutations do not develop at all.
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