[vorejdajo]

Survivalist? You do realize once the loved one dies,the cells have to die too. A bit counter-inituitive..

[tasty_freeze]

It is a tragedy of the commons scenario. The individual actors have no conscience or plan, of course, but it all amounts to the same: some cells can morph into freeloaders and those that morph into the most aggressive replicators "win" in the short term.

[djmips]

Unless perhaps if the cancer is transmissible.

[jcims]

Yes, quite. Sometimes it's too successful and outstrips its resource. Sounds familiar.

If you have a word you prefer I invite you to use it in the future.

[ncmncm]

I have been using "cancer", but "carcinoma" and "tumor" are common.

[danachow]

Those terms are not interchangeable.

[inawarminister]

Some cells survive the death of their organism. Like the HeLa line of cells. There's an interesting and tragic story behinds it too...