• Question: how do you think cancer started and who discovered it?

    Asked by Ellie to Alex on 14 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Alex Pool

      Alex Pool answered on 14 Nov 2014:

      There have been recordings of cancer going back up to 2500 years BC! So that’s over 4500 years ago!

      Cancer is individual to every person, so has to start in each person. It’s caused by mutations occuring in your DNA. So the code that controls everything our cells do goes wrong. That makes the cells divide to make more cells over and over, when normally they wouldn’t. That then makes the tumour.

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