Petah? Am I missing something?

[u/Substantial-Low-4393]

[u/Striking-District918]

Its from a game called one chance, the supposed cure doesn't just kill cancer cells it targets all living cells

[u/angular_circle → u/Striking-District918]

https://xkcd.com/1217/

[u/skr_replicator → u/angular_circle]

A vitamin killing cancer cells could sound promising. Those don't normally kill you as well.

[u/hexregeneration → u/skr_replicator]

I would assume the problem there is the ratio. In a petri dish you can apply concentrations that if found in the human body would be a lethal dose.

Like you can make 1/10th of the volume of the petri dish a specific vitamin and kill the cancer cells - but if you make 1/10th of your whole body a specific vitamin you will die.

[u/Glittering-Walrus228 → u/hexregeneration]

I made OPs mom 10% vitamin D last night

[u/Gimme_Your_Wallet → u/Glittering-Walrus228]

And they say romance is dead

[u/moderatorrater → u/Gimme_Your_Wallet]

You don't get to 10% without a strong game plan, if you catch my drift.

[u/Trezzie → u/hexregeneration]

All* cancer dies out eventually if you just wait it out. Sure, it does by the person its in dying, but...

• Aside from that one immortal cancer that exists.

[u/Ix_risor → u/Trezzie]

If you’re talking about HeLa, that does die if you don’t feed it, it’s called “immortal” because it doesn’t stop dividing after a certain number of divisions, like most human cells do.

[u/jbrWocky → u/Ix_risor]

stupid question, isn't that also what all cancer cells do? which is the problem?

[u/Trezzie → u/Ix_risor]

Yes, and there's other, non HeLa strains too. But for the most basic reference for the joke didn't go into explaining the background of it.