bioengineer & founder @ stealth oncology biotech // prev. PhD @ucsdbe // i write music on sundays
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1/ asked Gemini to finish this sentence:
"Cancer is a disease of ___"
and got back three answers:
"Cancer is a disease of the genome."
"Cancer is a disease of uncontrolled cell division."
"Cancer is a disease of cell regulation."
but what's still missing?
2/ What's missing is the mechanism that actually kills:
Metastasis. Cancer kills you when it spreads.💥
You can have plenty genomic errors and cell division (benign tumors), but unless the cells can travel and invade, it isn't cancer.
"Cancer is a disease of spread."
but why do we not treat it in this way?