• @paysrenttobirds
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    -53 months ago

    I don’t know what cancer has to do with a closed environment. More like a failed "ecosystem in a jar*.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OP
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      43 months ago

      The body of an organism is a closed environment. It can be seen as an ecosystem of lots of different cells that live with in this environment. Cancer is just a mutation that allows some cells to replicate and spread through their environment in uncontrolled fashion.

      • Karyoplasma
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        23 months ago

        In abstraction, chemotherapy is the idea of “have you tried turning it off and on again” for the immune system.