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akomtu ◴[] No.36991079[source]
The adaptability of cancer makes me think it's in fact a parasitic distributed lifeform, similar to fungus, that turns cells into zombies.
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Vecr ◴[] No.36992478[source]
Cancer is your cells though, that's the problem.
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1. jbotz ◴[] No.36993095[source]
Usually, yes. But there do exist infectious cancers that spread between individuals. One is the face cancer that's been killing Tasmanian devils[0]... it started in one individual and spreads to others when they fight (biting each other). Apparently there's a similar (although rarer) cancers that's sexually transmitted between dogs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_facial_tumour_disease