[Tyler]

Game theory explains social interactions of cancer cells
28 January 2015, 1:20 pm

The interactions of cancer cells may be explained by using game theory. The Public Goods Game is part of game theory and is used in economics as a model to analyze the provision of common goods. There is an imbalance in the consumption of these goods between those that provide them and pay the production costs and those that do not pay but consume anyway -- a situation that is known in economics as the free rider problem. The researchers now applied this model to the cooperation between producing and non-producing members of a cancer cell population, in order to examine if the model is also applicable to biological processes, such as carcinogenesis.

Source: Artificial Intelligence News -- ScienceDaily

[DemonRaven]

My own pet theory on cancer that i had for a long time before they discovered that some cancers can be caused by a virus is that it is a virus in most all cases. Why? For one thing there are too many causes of cancer. It is more likely that those things can weaken our immune system. For another the cancer cell acts too much like a virus. IT multiples and is hard to kill. Lastly virus reproduce by hijacking the host cell and using it to make more virus's. Yes there is more scientific method of explaining this but i am loathe to use it because most people not saying people here won't understand it  but most other people don't understand the words used and do not want to spend a half hour just looking up definitions.