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INTEREST: Cancer Researcher Praises, Explains Cells at Work! Anime's Episode 7

Cancer cells are just living their lives the way that they have been genetically created to do. The problem and fault of it is the replication error that gave them the wrong genetic information that causes rapid and unchecked growth and replication.

It doesn't change that they need to die for the body to live but cancer isn't some intruder trying to destroy your body for it's own benefit like other diseases, it's literally a part of your body doing what it was programmed to do but being programmed to do the wrong things by mistake. The way cancer was handled here makes sense given all this, and the series has always made a point of the needs of the few being outweighed by the many (remember how those red blood cells were sacrificed to make a clot in the 2nd episode?). But this series applies that sort of extreme logic to abstractions of cells that are actually aware of inherently unfair bodily processes can be to their own cells so why wouldn't the one cell that has it the worst want to call that out?

As insensitive as this might sound of me, the whole "if you had lost a family member to cancer you'd be angry too!" with regards to the latest episode to me that just sounds like people putting their personal feelings before facts. It's not like cancer cells WANT to kill people, just like it's not like the immune system wants to send people into anaphylaxis over nuts, milk or bee stings. It just happens. The tragedy of cancer has more to do with the body malfunctioning and being cause for it's downfall then it does with alien pathogens on the attack.