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Originally Posted by thesheriff443
It won’t help you, we are all born with cancer cells And if they mutat then you get cancer.
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Someone needs to cobble together Tibb's guide to health and the human body. A rollicking parody of made up nonsense.
Cancer is a mutation of normal cells. Obviously, everyone is born with normal cells. The risk of mutation increases with age, and from exposure to radiation or carcinogens,but can also happen more or less at random. There's a genetic element to the risk of SOME cancers.
You are not born with specific cancer cells waiting to pop.
Interestingly though, cancer stats in humans are "artificially" higher than in most other species, because humans have a natural lifespan of 40-60 years. For 99% of human evolution you had absolutely no chance of reaching 60+, when most cancers occur. Cells start mutating at an increasing pace the further you get past 60 because in the natural world you'd be long dead...
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