---
title: "An Unstoppable Killer: New Research Suggests Cancer Can’t Be Eradicated"
description: "New research suggests that our cells' ability to develop cancer is \"an intrinsic property\" that has evolved way before we rallied our forces to try to tackle it."
date: "2015-01-20"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "StefanCretu"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/stefancretu"
url: "https://futurism.com/an-unstoppable-killer-new-research-suggests-cancer-cant-be-eradicated"
categories:
  - "Cancer"
  - "Health & Medicine"
  - "Medical"
tags:
  - "medical"
---

# An Unstoppable Killer: New Research Suggests Cancer Can’t Be Eradicated

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- Researchers at Kiel University, the Catholic University of Croatia and other institutions discovered that hydra — tiny, coral-like polyps that emerged hundreds of millions of years ago — form tumors similar to those found in humans.
- New research indicates that cancer genes, and the mechanisms that allow tumor cells to evade death and invade healthy tissue, "have deep evolutionary roots," the researchers wrote.
- Researchers are careful to clarify that they don’t mean there is nothing you can do to fight it, as medical technology will allow us to oftentimes successfully treat and clean a patient completely and forever of troublemaking cells.