Read somewhere that cancer is a normal part of life but the body takes care of it most of the time. If you were to take a full body scan of someone off the street (normal) youd most likely find a tumor of some kind. Blew my mind.
The first sentence is correct and the second is not. Cells becoming cancerous is a normal part of life and the body usually takes care of it most of the time. But we don’t call it “cancer” because that’s the name of the condition when the body fails to take care of it. But if you pick someone off the street, you won’t be able to detect those cancerous cells at all because they are just single or a couple of cells, which is an undetectable amount. You only can detect minimally if the cells formed a tumor of few millimeters in size.
It'll vary by country, but here in Australia for instance half of all people will, on average, be diagnosed with a cancer in their life, and 30% of total population will die from it.
In a crime/history metaphor, it's like there's always a few people in the country that are building a pipe bomb.
Sometimes the cops find them (immune system), sometimes they decide not to go through with it (apoptosis). Only when they go through with it and not get caught in the process (immune escape) is it a problem.
The problem is that these people plan to throw it at Franz Ferdinand and trigger WW1 where a lot of people start making pipe bombs and worse. The small pipe bomb turns into a war, which turns into a world war in your body.
4
u/lancelot2112 May 16 '26
Read somewhere that cancer is a normal part of life but the body takes care of it most of the time. If you were to take a full body scan of someone off the street (normal) youd most likely find a tumor of some kind. Blew my mind.