Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 2024-12-29, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

On 29/12/2024 11:02, D wrote:
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My mothers doctor told me that cancer is not one disease, it's 100s of
different ones and apparently that is why it is so difficult to cure it.
Research focuses on the most common ones, and I imagine there is very
little money in the least common ones.

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All it really is, is abnormal genetics taking hold. A mutation appears,
survives and then prospers.
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It is pure luck of the draw, mostly.
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And its hard to call e.g. heart disease a disease, since there is no
active agency causing it.
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It's an effect of genetics and lifestyle choices and a huge slice of luck.

 I suspect that prolonged biochemical stress (e.g. smoking) is a factor.