how do you survive the rapid loss of cells from cancer and how does the immune system combat it ?

Question: how do you survive the rapid loss of cells from cancer and how does the immune system combat it ?
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  cancer,
  cells,
  combat
Asked by game520goad on 9 Apr 2025.
- Jayalini Assalaarachchi answered on 9 Apr 2025:
  
  It is not so much that you loose cells in cancer. It is more that cells that used to work normally suddenly start misbehaving. We need to get rid of these bad cells before they go onto make the rest of the cells bad too. The immune system is the body’s army. So, it can help get rid of the bad cells.

Jess commented on 12 May 2025:

Cancer actually results in an increase of cells. But the treatment kills cancer cells and sometimes healthy cells. The immune system can detect a protein called an antigen on the cancer cells and can release enzymes that digest the cell, or release signals that force the cancer cell to die (apoptosis). However, sometimes the cancer cell is clever and uses an antigen that the immune system thinks is “normal”.

Question: how do you survive the rapid loss of cells from cancer and how does the immune system combat it ?