Athena Aktipis

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena · 9 Jan 2026 podcast

And if that doesn't work, then it's like,

you know what, we're just going to, so that we don't mess things up for everybody else.

So it's kind of like the cellular conscience.

Like you could think of it that way.

We're going to, you know, like that's one set of mechanisms.

And, you know, TP53 is not the only one.

There's many, many, you know, genetically based systems inside the cell that are monitoring the behavior of that cell and changing the state of that cell, right, to,

do DNA repair, halting cell cycle, engaging cellular death.

All of those things are options to keep the cells from making a problem for the rest of the body.

So you have that level.

And then you have the neighborhood level.

So cells are constantly monitoring each other and constantly sending signals to each other.

They're sending survival signals and anti-apoptosis signals, right?

Yeah.

So and sending growth growth signals as well.

So basically, you know, the survival signals, you know, those anti apoptosis survival signals are basically saying, so you're good, you know, hang in there with us.

And then the growth signals are saying, you know, yeah, you can keep dividing.

You know, everything's all good, in my opinion, with you.

Right.

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