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> Do cancers typically do good things at their baseline?

Cancers are tissues gone rogue. The original tissue does in fact tend to do “good things”.

There are a few transmissible cancers, but the vast majority of them are your own tissues twisted to only consider their own personal survival and short-term gains at the expense of the rest of the organism.



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