It does lose to malthusian dynamics, yes. But cells are constantly mutating and spawning errors, even in healthy bodies. A lot of the time the body does catch these errors and stops them from exploding. This is, after all, how we can even live in the first place. It also loses to therapies administered at the superorganism scale. Not as much as we’d like, but it does.
cancer does not lose to normal cells. it loses to malthus.
It does lose to malthusian dynamics, yes. But cells are constantly mutating and spawning errors, even in healthy bodies. A lot of the time the body does catch these errors and stops them from exploding. This is, after all, how we can even live in the first place. It also loses to therapies administered at the superorganism scale. Not as much as we’d like, but it does.