• GreenMario@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Remember kids, if you are a multi-cellular organism and have one cancer cell, you have cancer.

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      1 year ago

      That’s… Just not true. People have benign carcinomas all the time and we don’t consider them to “have cancer.” It’s a bit of a sliding scale but to have cancer generally implies some sort of malignancy or at least the threat of future malignancy.