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Well sometimes the solution to cancer is more cancer. Larger animals like elephants and whales don't die from cancer because their cancer gets cancer before it manages to spread. These hypertumors then compete with and deprive the original cancer of blood flow, so they all end up starving.

When you think about it we mostly cure cancer with ionizing radiation, which is ironically notorious for causing it in the first place.



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