Terrible analogy. I’m not sure if this is troll bait.

A better analogy would be:

> Brain tumors are like dumping a whole load of construction equipment, controlled by insatiable and sleepless toddlers that steal your food, on your property.

Cancer acts the way it does because it the cells that drive it are intrinsically out of control. “Reprogramming” those cells to “follow simple rules” would just make them… normal cells.

Edit:

Assuming your comment was made in good faith, you will likely be interested to learn about ongoing stem cell and organoid research. The first part of this recent lecture by Michael Levin may pique your curiosity [0].

[0] https://youtu.be/9pG6V4SagZE?si=vc1-_TCQJpYFLqPe

Speaking for myself, the only "superpower" I got from a tumour near my brain was not being able to fully rotate one of my eyes because of pressure on the nerve that moved it. While this was a fun party trick that caused my brother to laugh uncontrollably and brought much joy to the neurology ward, I'm glad I got it removed.

I will also note that the tumour, being a tumour, had blood flow that was seriously messed up. The thing was mostly dead when the surgeon removed it, as it had suffered something like a tiny localised stroke. The idea that it was going to contribute anything sounds like bullshit.

Hey, you shouldn't have deleted your comment brah..

It was an interesting take!

Yeah, a whole load of construction equipment, in your living room. Which keeps multiplying by itself, and gonna take up so much space that it squeezes you to death against the living room wall.

Heh, that's an interesting take on it!?

You speak with such conviction, how much have you studied 'The Big C' or was that more of some sort of gut feeling?

I think the main simple rule they (the cancerous cells that make up a tumour) need to follow is to fecking die!

It's like they (the cells) refuse to accept it is their time. Apoptosis signals get ignored, and they just won't go quietly.(a bit like Jo Biden).

It's a bit like when you are developing in the womb, at the early stages when the embryo (the blastocyst) starts to take on human characteristics.. i.e. when the fingers of the hand develop.. if the cells between the fingers didn't follow the rules and die off when it was their time the individual fingers of the hand wouldn't develop. Indeed, we would just end up like a big fat rotund amorphous blob (a bit like Trump).

It's like the cancer cells have gone bat-shit psychotic and refuse to die quietly.. Have holed themselves up in a discarded/boarded up bando house somewhere with some machine guns and ammo.. Perhaps a few hand grenades, and refuse to go down without a fight. "I'm high strung, click I'm sprung..." ♪ ♫ ♬ ♭ And once the bando hijaks a water supply/electric, you're in for one hell of a ride (i.e. gets a blood supply from nearby blood vessel) ..

Best not to let crazy/ psychotic people get in the house in the first place..

I sometimes joke, "what about the cancer?" And not just in jest for despicable people afflicted. These are weird evolutions of ourselves. We should study them. The shit probably isn't going to be as cool as Butcher from The Boys, but ALL the removed masses of human brain tissue should definitely be preserved in a non-destructive way as possible and should be studied. I don't think we can fully understand brain abnormalities before we understand the brain, but seeing some failure cases has to help.

So we should remove them especially as we lack the full understanding to know if they are always dangerous.

Yikes, this is a weird take.