Talk:Cancer Cell/@comment-37876837-20190325204412/@comment-24053170-20200919011627

When you think about it logically, Cancer Cells really shouldn't be able to hide from the Immune System.

Cancer is not a bacteria or a virus, its merely a cell (or group of cells) that experienced a mutation that makes it overexpress Telomerase to allow itself to continue dividing/reproducing without limit.

Thats how Cancer works, the problem is that no amount of genetic tampering or genetic damage should give the cell the ability to evade or supress the immune system.

Based on that, Cancer shouldn't be able to do what it does. Because its not a function that your normal cells have, even if they turned cancerous.

If it was a virus it would make sense that it could evade the immune system (as some viral organisms like AIDS can avoid the immune system after taking effect), and bacteria contiually evolves defenses/resistances to whatever defeated it last time.

But Cancer isn't either one of those, so basic common sense should dictate that it can't fully avoid the immune system.

While its true that it can Metastatize and spread through the body, thats already a function that normal cells have and isn't something that surprising.

But completely evading the bodies immune response? Not possible based on the information regarding how it actually functions.