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Ep. 51: “The Journey of Cells” Featuring Dr. Doug Green

The Immunology Podcast

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The Evolution of Cell Death Processes

Cancer hijack systems that are already present in the body so my suspicion with absolutely no evidence is that this is part of how tissues respond to damage. So you can imagine a focus of damage in a panumbra of dying cells cells that are killing themselves as a consequence of the changes in the immediate environment and then around that our cells that maybe got us signaled to die but didn't quite get all the way there and those cells come back. Those cells come back from that brink of death and now have a mission and they're going to invade and fill in that that tissue until true complete regenerative processes can occur i mean when it goes cancer it's a zombie right it almost dies or

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