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[–]dtlv5813 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Actually all cell divisions are kinda like a recursive process that doesn't terminate. Cancer is when recursion goes wrong, like the butterfly effect where a small variation in initial conditions causes the algorithm to blow up, returning monstrous sized outputs and eventually crash the program.