While cancer does not have an ideology per se, it is the result of a failure of our cellular self-regulatory programmed cell death (apoptosis) of rouge random cell variants. This unchecked growth, of the wrong cells in the wrong place is a somewhat simplistic but adequate definition of that pervasive scourge on us all, as we cheat death from other causes.
One could argue that cancer is a failure of "regulation", and it is frustrating how something so simple in concept eludes a remedy. It makes you think maybe we aren't supposed to live forever (while cancer can attack young people too).
As long as we are on a biology veer, it is perhaps interesting (and a little scary) to consider the rise of drug resistant TB. Too many years of treatment with drugs that didn't completely kill TB, created an opportunity for the few resistant microbes to strengthen free of competition from the other common TB strains. Anybody still not believe in evolution? Maybe momma needs to rethink overuse of those disinfectant wipes... let the harmless bacteria dominate and eat all the food so the really nasty new bugs can't get a foothold.
JR
PS: cancer sucks. :-(
PPS: a comprehensive philosophical inspection of this is long and twisted.... but the parallel is obvious so enjoy.
