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Is cancer a disease or does it provide a fitness advantage?
Prof. Austin would argue that treating cancer as another yet disease to be conquered possibly misses the point that cancer is qualitatively different from most other conditions that impact human health. Perhaps cancer fulfills an important fitness function to the collective community and it is qualitatively different then what is normally viewed as a disease. Perhaps it is a deliberately programmed event, and tolerated by the organism viewed collectively. The 4 related questions he will discuss are: 1) Why do we view cancer as a disease? 2) Why do we always try to destroy a tumor? 3) What is the role of game theory in cancer dynamics? 4) Is there a evolutionary function to the metastatic transition?
- "Prof. Austin would argue that treating cancer as another yet disease to be conquered possibly misses the point that cancer is qualitatively different from most other conditions that impact human health. Perhaps cancer fulfills an important fitness function to the collective community and it is qualitatively different then what is normally viewed as a disease. Perhaps it is a deliberately programmed event, and tolerated by the organism viewed collectively. The 4 related questions he will discuss are: 1) Why do we view cancer as a disease? 2) Why do we always try to destroy a tumor? 3) What is the role of game theory in cancer dynamics? 4) Is there a evolutionary function to the metastatic transition?"@en
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