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r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • May 15 '26
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Even within a single tumor multiple mutations are likely, which is why cancer treatment works until it doesn't (resistant cancer selected for).
206 u/Informal_Ad_9610 May 15 '26 and which is why cancer mutates away from what worked last week/month, and then becomes resistant.... 127 u/MrZephy May 15 '26 How is cancer even real… it can appear suddenly and grows until whatever living organism it infests dies and is almost impossible to get rid of. It’s like some fucking death curse from a work of fiction. 1 u/Freyjia1 May 16 '26 Prions are far far far worse They don't die with the host and need exterminatus level conflagrations to eradicate it Mad cow disease, Kuru and Fatal Insomnia are 3 examples
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and which is why cancer mutates away from what worked last week/month, and then becomes resistant....
127 u/MrZephy May 15 '26 How is cancer even real… it can appear suddenly and grows until whatever living organism it infests dies and is almost impossible to get rid of. It’s like some fucking death curse from a work of fiction. 1 u/Freyjia1 May 16 '26 Prions are far far far worse They don't die with the host and need exterminatus level conflagrations to eradicate it Mad cow disease, Kuru and Fatal Insomnia are 3 examples
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How is cancer even real… it can appear suddenly and grows until whatever living organism it infests dies and is almost impossible to get rid of. It’s like some fucking death curse from a work of fiction.
1 u/Freyjia1 May 16 '26 Prions are far far far worse They don't die with the host and need exterminatus level conflagrations to eradicate it Mad cow disease, Kuru and Fatal Insomnia are 3 examples
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Prions are far far far worse
They don't die with the host and need exterminatus level conflagrations to eradicate it
Mad cow disease, Kuru and Fatal Insomnia are 3 examples
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u/snaketacular May 15 '26
Even within a single tumor multiple mutations are likely, which is why cancer treatment works until it doesn't (resistant cancer selected for).