Would a Cure for Cancer Lead to Immortality?
Question by SeaSquirt: Would a cure for cancer lead to immortality?
When you take a photo and Xerox it, there’ll be an error on that Xerox – a scratch, a blurry pixel, whatever. When you make a photocopy of that photocopy, the quality is compromised again. The more times you do it, the more errors accumulate.
That’s similar to the most subscribed to theory of aging, the Hayflick Effect – our cells keep duplicating themselves and with each duplication, errors are passed along. This causes us to age and deteriorate.
Cancer occurs when there’s unchecked growth… cells can’t stop reproducing and a mass forms. So if we found a way for cells to stop duplicating themselves, cancer wouldn’t be able to exist.
If cells were unable to duplicate, errors wouldn’t be able to be passed along – we’d have perfect, healthy cells and wouldn’t deteriorate.
Is there any flaw with what I just said?
Best answer:
Answer by Amber
If cells didn’t duplicate, humans couldn’t reproduce and if you don’t have reproduction, you don’t have new humans.
Furthermore, they are many, MANY more causes of death than cancer. And too many types of cancer to be fixed by any one miraculous cure.
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