For example, if someone discovers they have breast cancer or cancer in the liver or something, does that mean that they always had cancer but it was not able to be detected until they discovered they had it? Or is that something that is formed later, and wasn’t always in that person’s body?
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To answer your question simply: yes even technically from birth once your cells start dividing and replicating, you have cancerous cells in your body. Technically even fetuses can develop cancerous tumors (although it’s extremely rare).
Because what cancer is at its SIMPLIEST explanation, is a cell that keeps replicating beyond its predetermined number of times it can replicate, and just like how a photocopy degrades the original image over time, eventually with enough replications it’s just a useless mass sucking up energy from the rest of your body
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