Tumours could be the ancestors of animals

Cancer remains a formidable foe even 40 years after Richard Nixon officially declared war on it. A new and controversial hypothesis now offers hope that the war can ultimately be won. It suggests tumours have a limited ability to evade modern therapies – a consequence of the idea that cancer is our most distant animal ancestor, a “living fossil” from over 600 million years ago. Image: GE Healthcare

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