eli5: Why is cancer so hard to get rid of?

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Why haven’t scientists worked it out yet?

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Cancer is basically just cells which grow selfish and start collecting food from blood vessels. We don’t know how to kill these cells. Maybe neutralize a few or partially neutralize but that’s it. Cancer reaches (actually crosses) the boundaries of biological stuff that we are confident about.

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