Why Do Cells Turn Cancerous?
Your body will copy three billion letters of DNA today, tens of billions of times over, and get almost every one right.
So the real puzzle is not why cells occasionally go wrong. It is why they so rarely do.
Jen, Chris and Matt take on one of the biggest questions the show has tackled, and they take it on strictly as biology. This episode is about what physically changes inside a single cell to turn it cancerous. It does not cover causes, risk or anyone's diagnosis, and the hosts say so plainly at the top.
What follows is the mechanism, step by step. The three rules a healthy cell lives by…
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