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Since we all have cancer cells in our body but our body fights them, but what causes those cells to eventually no longer be defeated by our immune system?
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Too many mutations: Cells do change and are recognized and disposed. Eventually a series of several changes do occur in the cell and once all of these have happened does the cell proliferates in the manner we associated with cancer.
Answered 4/24/2016
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