If a Virus is meant to reproduce and spread to other organisms. What is the purpose of a cancer cell?

Question

Is there a purpose to a cancer cell?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Well there really isnt a purpose cancer is technically a mess up in your body. When your cells use asexual reproduction to create another cell sometimes it messes up. Usually this happens thousands of times a day but your body usually stops most of the mutations but if it misses it can be a deadly mutation