The Darwin Cancer Blog

Before we discuss cancer, let’s consider other sets of nasty characters – criminals, Nazis and terrorists. We know that the best way to limit crime is to create neighbourhoods that provide opportunities for education and jobs – a healthy infrastructure disfavours the criminal phenotype.

The transition from unicellularity to multicellularity was one of the most significant advances in the evolution of life on Earth. This allowed adaptation to a wide range of new ecological niches, rapidly accelerating the pace of evolution and creating an explosion of diversity across the plant, animal and fungal kingdoms.

Cancer is not a death sentence; there is a great deal of difference between a prostate and a pancreatic cancer diagnosis, and even differences between subtypes of cancer within any particular organ.