Why Cancer Has Been Eradicated

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Cancer, a deadly disease which affects 14 million, and takes the life of 8 million yearly, or 1 in 3 to say the least. How can something so minute be so deleterious, for something that starts of as one single cell can be blamed for such loss of lives.
Or can we blame it on behavioural damage; and pardon our normal cell repair system - after all our body is only trying to repair the damage caused by the products of consumption and use, Smoking, alcohol use and to name a few.
And after we perceive at why Cancer has not been eradicated yet. When we take into account of its properties; cancer is unlike HIV/AIDS or the Common cold which appears so frequently.
The properties of a cancer cell makes it onerous to interpret; with its always adjusting

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