If CRISPR allows to target specific genes, and cancer occurs when cell’s DNA changes to multiply uncontrollably and refuse the immune system’s orders to die, why can’t we just use CRISPR to solve most of the cancers?

Question

I guess there could be many genes that affect the “grow uncontrollably” part or the “refuse to die” part, but can’t we just target all of them?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Because cancer is not a DNA mutation.

In a.test where the nucleus of a cancer cell was transplanted (both ways) with the nucleus of a normal cell, the normal cell with the cancer nucleus reproduced normal cells, while the cancer cell with the normal nucleus reproduced cancer cells. This proves that it’s NOT a mutation of nucleic DNA

Cancer is a metabolic disease.

[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493566/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4493566/)