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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Are we bound to get cancer if we don't die from something else before that?

If I don't get a heart attack, or die by komodo dragon bite, will I eventually get cancer?
gpt
Pretty much yes.

Cancer is an unavoidable consequence of evolution.

A multicellular organism is a colony of cells that work in concert for one common goal. As we have evolved our cells have developed mechanisms to make sure all the cells divide and grow as complying members of the whole. Still, an individual cell that mutates (mutations happen all the time) to grow out of this control will do so!

The control systems have evolved to reduce the risk of cancers until they no longer posed significant selective pressure on reproductive success.

Generally though, because of evolution, as you live longer the chance of getting cancer approaches 1. That being said, there is no reason why we should not be able to push this back a lot further.

=)