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Since the liberty of turning my thread of science into a share and care fest has been taken, I guess I'll add to it.
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I'm not good at care fests, but on the science side:
Cancer is essentialy one mutated cell that decided to divide endlessly. It's been mutated to the point that normal things that say "Dude, stop dividing" don't work. This is how you get tumours.
While I can see why cancer would be called "a new species" (since it's a mutant of another species and mutation and evolution are linked), I still see it as just something going wrong inside the body.
Getting back to opinions, the amount of "this cures cancer!" crap around is really worrying. I found out about vitamin B17 (which isn't recognised as a vitamin and contains cyanide), the "Quabalah center"'s healing water (and book that you don't even have to read), and got disgusted. Yes, there are drugs that help cancer. There's ways to just all-out kill cancerous cells (and there's the Mind over Matter idea and placebo effect), but saying "eat this poison" or "drink water" to someone who really needs a cure, and then selling it to them, is just so... capatilist in its worst form.