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 your cells in your body malfunctioning. Normally this wouldn’t be the end of the world but one part that malfunctions with cancer is the part that says to stop dividing and to die off.

Since that part malfunctions you have cells that are essentially broken constantly multiplying and they also take your nutrients.

So the reason it’s so hard is that cancer cells are your human cells. Most cancer treatment involves trying to poison the cancer or cut it out of you

If someone made a medicine that only poisoned cancer cells and left everything else unharmed you would have the cure.

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