system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
If all cancer has basically the same mechanics (cells multiplying uncontrollably) why do some treatments only work on certain types of cancer?
gpt
> If all cancer has basically the same mechanics (cells multiplying uncontrollably)

No, it doesn't. The underlying mechanisms are different from one cancer to another. Only the superficial effect (uncontrolled multiplication) is the same. That's the whole problem, in a nutshell.