How cancer was created by evolution

Will we ever win the "war on cancer"?

The latest figures show just how distant a prospect victory is right now. In the US, the lifetime risk of developing cancer is 42% in men and 38% in women, according to the American Cancer Society. The figures are even worse in the UK. According to Cancer Research UK, 54% of men and 48% of women will get cancer at some point in their lives.

And cases are on the rise. As of 2015 there are 2.5 million people in the UK living with the disease, according to Macmillan Cancer Support. This is an increase of 3% each year, or 400,000 extra cases in five years.

Cancer is not only extremely pervasive, but also becoming more and more common
Figures like this show that cancer is not only extremely pervasive, but also becoming more and more common. But why will so many people develop the disease at some point in their lives?

To get to the answer, we must understand that cancer is an unfortunate by-product of the way evolution works. Large and complicated animals like humans are vulnerable to cancer precisely because they are large and complicated.

But even though it is evolutionary processes that have made cancer such a problem, it is also evolutionary thinking that is now leading to pioneering treatments that could stack the odds against cancer and in favour of our health.

To understand how cancer exists at all, we need to go back to a fundamental process that occurs in our bodies: cell division.

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cancer was not created.

its a natural process gone haywire.

when the cellular regulatory factors which are supposed to stop or control the continuous multiplication of cells are absent or altered, their resulting absence or distortion lead to a continuous process of cell division which we know as cell cancer.

under normal conditions cancer is regulated and its harm contained. this kind of cancer is called benign cancer.

an example is birth marks. cancer of melanocytes( colour forming cells)

the dangerous uncontrollable is called malignant cancer.